· Public charity
Robert and Patricia Endries Family Foundation Ltd
To benefit people and non-profit organizations in need, primarily in the brillion area but with some consideration to the fox valley, lakeshore and northeastern areas of wisconsin.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Robert and Patricia Endries Family Foundation Ltd’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For The Fox Valley Region Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Robert and Patricia Endries Family Foundation Ltd named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $417k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $417,423 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $453,397 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,974 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAWHIDE INC | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX VALLEY REGION - INC | $56,500 |
| BSD-BRILLION PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $48,423 |
| VIDA | $15,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE DIVINE SAVIOR - SALVATORIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES | $10,000 |
| BRILLION NATURE STUDY CENTER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF CALUMET COUNTY | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–21, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- RIRAWHIDE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $271k · revenue +41%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D4× · 2017–2020 · $41k · revenue +49%
- VIVIDA INC2× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- COCITY OF BRILLIONone grant, 2018 · $90k
- GFGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $51k · revenue +90%
- CCCALUMET COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $25k
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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15 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. 15 of the 22 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 FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds MATT KOLBE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENDRIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BRILLION NATURE STUDY CENTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPS ACADEMY 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: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Myra M and Robert L Vandehey Foundation Ltd · The William J and Barbara a Schmidt Family Foundation Inc · John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation · Fox Communities Credit Union · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation
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 Robert and Patricia Endries Family Foundation Ltd 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.
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