· Private foundation
Sadoff Family Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k16 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
- $250k+1 grant · $788k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $787,500 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $100,000 |
| FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $50,000 |
| SADOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION (FIDELITY CHARITABLE) | $20,000 |
| MILWAUKEE FILM | $10,000 |
| BEAM SUNTORY DISTRIBUTORS FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FOND DU LAC COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREEN BAY | $5,000 |
| FOND DU LAC WOMEN'S FUND | $5,000 |
| FOND DU LAC AREA Y SCREEN | $5,000 |
| FOND DU LAC ADULT LITERACY SERVICE INC | $2,500 |
| SALAVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2019, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- MUMarian University3× · 2017–2019 · $450k · revenue +67%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC2× · 2017–2018 · $210k · revenue +144%
- RIRAWHIDE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +37%
- TBTEMPLE BETH ISRAELone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BHBeacon Houseone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -99%
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.
To unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community
The mission of envision greater fond du lac foundation, inc. is to inspire our community to work in partnership and cultivate a vibrant economic future.
The mission of envision greater fond du lac, inc. is to inspire our community to work in partnership and cultivate a vibrant economic future.
To serve the christian home and church by disciplining students academically and spiritually; helping each student attain a biblical worldview and their full potential as unique and beloved creations of a sovereign god.
To establish a diverse, prosperous and healthy district that is the social, commercial and cultural heart of the community.
Fond du lac lutheran home, as part of lutheran homes and health services, provides a christian-based innovative approach to aging through comprehensive services, programs, and communities.
We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Fond Du Lac Inc and the most unlike its peers is Suntory Global Spirits Distributors Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 49 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 THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Suntory Global Spirits Distributors Foundation ↗
- Who funds Beacon House ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC ADULT LITERACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds ASTOP INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds UWO-FOND DU LAC FOUNDATION 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: Grande Foundation · Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Michels Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Fond Du Lac Area United Way 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 Sadoff Family Foundation 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.