· Private foundation
Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k218 grants · $447k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $883k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $820k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UWSP FOUNDATION | $2,201,550 |
| MAUI UNITED WAY | $2,089,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY (SP) | $486,790 |
| PACELLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $380,000 |
| PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| LIVING PONO PROJECT | $150,000 |
| STEVENS POINT PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST | $146,976 |
| NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORP | $100,130 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| MAUI FOOD BANK | $56,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $51,928 |
| RAWHIDE INC | $50,000 |
| STEVENS POINT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $46,626 |
| OPERATION BOOTSTRAP | $43,653 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I FOUNDATION | $38,380 |
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 (FY21–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +15% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 156 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k 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
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +45% · 27% of their budget- MUMAUI UNITED WAY4× · 2021–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +166% · 29% of their budget
- RIRAWHIDE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SPStevens Point Area Schools Technology Initiativeone grant, 2020 · $1.2M
- MCMEDICAL COLLEGE OF WIone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future 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 59 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) — 1% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 309 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds STEVENS POINT CURLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BOOTSTRAP ↗
- Who funds Living Pono Project ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE ↗
- Who funds MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Edward J Okray Foundation Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Woodtrust Charitable 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 Sentry Insurance 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.
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
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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