· Private foundation
Pukall Lumber Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER | $3,333 |
| LAKELAND AREA BASEBALL ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| TOWN OF MANITOWISH WATERS | $2,000 |
| VILAS CTY ECON DVLPMT CORP | $2,000 |
| CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ARBOR VITAE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE KOLLER LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| CAMPANILE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NEXTGEN ALS | $1,000 |
| NICOLET COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER | $750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Pukall Lumber Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
80 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HYHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +164%
- NLNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +72%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- LULAKELAND UNION HIGH SCHOOL LAKELAND STARone grant, 2020 · $80k
- NCNORTH CENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- NNNICOLET NATIONAL BANK FDNone grant, 2023 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nextgen Als Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 163 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NICOLET COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS ALLIANCE FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMPANILE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Manitowish Waters Fire Company ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VILAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Lumw Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Walter Alexander Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Pukall Lumber Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.