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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2019
23
Grants FY2019
21
Organizations funded FY2019
33%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$787,500
Organizations funded a year
21 to 35
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 33% of the organizations Sadoff Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201921$1.1M33%
FY201835$1.4M37%
FY201727$990kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$2.2MEducation$521kHealth$402kAnimals$292kYouth Development$254kPhilanthropy$59kReligion$50kHuman Services$27kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
IN
OH
CA
MO
MD
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts Inc$2,192,500385%
Marian University$450,00030%
Boys & Girls Club of Fond Du Lac Inc$210,00029%
Fond Du Lac Humane Society$123,500314%
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc$50,00010%
Temple Beth Israel$50,0001n/a
Suntory Global Spirits Distributors Foundation$27,0003n/a
Beacon House$25,0001n/a
Rawhide Inc$20,00020%
Milwaukee Film Inc$20,00030%
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Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($249k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Sadoff Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThelma Sadoff Center for the Arts Inc: $2,192,500 over 3y, 85% of budgetMarian University: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Fond Du Lac Inc: $210,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetFond Du Lac Humane Society: $123,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRawhide Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Film Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Bay and Lakes Region Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSolutions Center Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Arc Fond Du Lac Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFond Du Lac County Agricultural Society: $12,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEls for Autism Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFond Du Lac Adult Literacy Services Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMoraine Park Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFondy Food Pantry: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDiscovery World Ltd: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAstop Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Museum of Fond Du Lac Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUwo-Fond Du Lac Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFree Spirit Riders Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFond Du Lac Symphonic Band Ltd: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Grande FoundationWI32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Sadoff Family Foundation

How much does Sadoff Family Foundation give?
Sadoff Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $1,224,813 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Sadoff Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Education (13%), Health (10%).
Who are Sadoff Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts Inc ($2.2M), Marian University ($450k), Boys & Girls Club of Fond Du Lac Inc ($210k).
Does Sadoff Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sadoff Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sadoff Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grande Foundation, Fond Du Lac Area Foundation, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
Where is Sadoff Family Foundation based?
Sadoff Family Foundation is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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