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Schlecht Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$844k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Environment$1.0MEducation$872kEmployment$634kYouth Development$500kCommunity Improvement$478kPhilanthropy$400kCivil Rights$230kHuman Services$225kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $516k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$50,000
WISCONSIN LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER$50,000
GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY$50,000
LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC$50,000
OPERATION FRESH START$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOURTHERN WISCONSIN INC$50,000
FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS TOGETHER$36,000
GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER$32,500
UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION$30,000
LITERACY NETWORK$30,000
BLACK GIRL MAGIC EDUCATION SERVICES$30,000
MONK GARDENS$30,000
NORTH CENTRAL CONSERVANCY TRUST$25,000
WECA$25,000
MAYDM$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $744k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%GREEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 7%FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS TOGETHER: $36k → 14%FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS TOGETHER: $25k → 14%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $33k → 10%REBALANCED LIFE WELLNESS ASSOCIATION: $150k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS: $30k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS: $30k → 10%CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $130k → 10%MENTORING POSITIVES: $25k → 10%MENTORING POSITIVES: $15k → 10%KIDS FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $33k → 10%KIDS FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $33k → 10%KIDS FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $33k → 10%KIDS FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $33k → 10%NEWBRIDGE MADISON: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
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CO
DC
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 36 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
39

Total granted

$4.0M
$849k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+39%

Still filing today

53%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • OF
    OPERATION FRESH START INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +116%
  • AL
    ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $315k · revenue +167%
  • BM
    BLACK MEN COALITION FOUNDATION CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $230k · revenue +514%

Funded once

  • RL
    Rebalanced Life Wellness Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +76% · 28% of their budget
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $130k · revenue +80% · 31% of their budget
  • GC
    Green County Family YMCA Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -76%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Rooted Wi Inc

We envision collaborations rooted in food, land and learning so that people can grow and thrive in healthy, equitable and sustainable neighborhoods.

Environment
3
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment
4
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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5
Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment
6
Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment
7
Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment
8
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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9
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
10
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
11
Midwest Energy Research Consortium Inc

Driving innovation for the energy, power, and controls sector by synchronizing market insights, technology innovation and talent & start-up development into a new innovation engine for economic development and growth.

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12
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library 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 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%12%<5yr12%8%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr19%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%11%<5yr12%10%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr19%16%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
10%
1,143/11,102

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
35/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $200,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOURTHERN WISCONSIN INC — $185,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOURTHERN WISCONSIN INCMAYDM INC — $170,000 · OtherMAYDM INCNEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INC — $150,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INCLIGHTHOUSE CHURCH MADISON — $140,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE CHURCH MADISONLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $125,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLFAST — $125,000 · OtherFASTWECA — $100,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $95,000 · Other+48 more — $1,044,020 · Other+48 moreALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $315,000 · EnvironmentALDO LEOPOLD NATU…CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $192,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN LAKES ALLIA…GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $190,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL CONSE…ROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentROBERT W MONK GAR…+6 more — $76,200 · Environment+6 moreRebalanced Life Wellness Association Inc — $150,000 · Human ServicesRebalanced Life…KIDS FORWARD FOUNDATION INC — $132,999 · Human ServicesKIDS FORWARD FO…CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S COMM…Green County Family YMCA Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesGreen County Fa…Families and Schools Together Inc — $61,000 · Human ServicesFamilies and Sc…FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR …Mentoring Positives Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $32,500 · Human Services+4 more — $52,500 · Human Services+4 moreOPERATION FRESH START INC — $350,000 · EmploymentOPERATION FRE…BLACK MEN COALITION FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $230,000 · EmploymentBLACK MEN COA…LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 · EmploymentLATINO ACADEM…+1 more — $3,750 · EmploymentCEOS OF TOMORROW INC — $215,000 · EducationCEOS OF T…LEGISLATIVE SEMESTER INC — $95,600 · EducationLEGISLATI…BOOKWORM GARDENS INC — $70,000 · EducationBOOKWORM …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC — $15,000 · Education+2 more — $13,500 · EducationLATINO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF DANE COUNTY INC — $200,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $3,750 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $165,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC — $30,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,334,020Environment$833,200Human Services$758,999Employment$633,750Education$439,100Community Improvement$253,750Philanthropy$195,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC — $350,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $315,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBLACK MEN COALITION FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $230,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCEOS OF TOMORROW INC — $215,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetLATINO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF DANE COUNTY INC — $200,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $192,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $190,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetMAYDM INC — $170,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $165,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRebalanced Life Wellness Association Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetKIDS FORWARD FOUNDATION INC — $132,999 over 4y, 22% of budgetCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $130,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetGreen County Family YMCA Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEGISLATIVE SEMESTER INC — $95,600 over 3y, 37% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $95,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF — $70,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBOOKWORM GARDENS INC — $70,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFamilies and Schools Together Inc — $61,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMentoring Positives Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $32,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHmong American Center Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL CONSERVANCY TRUST INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $22,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEWBRIDGE MADISON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetBIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWISCONSIN PHILANTHROPY NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Governor Nelson State Park — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ASSOCIATION OF DANE COUNTY INC — $3,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP — $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE CENTER — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Madison Community Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…Trustage Foundation I…United Way of Dane Co…Endres Manufacturing …Green Bay Packers Fou…Ascendium Education S…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Widen Family Foundati…Madison Investments F…
Madison Community FoundationWI65.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Widen Family Foundation Inc · Madison Investments 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 Schlecht Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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