· Private foundation
Silver Star Brands 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OSHKOSH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,550 |
| BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC | $2,000 |
| OSHKOSH CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| NAMI OSHKOSH INC | $500 |
| FVTC FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| DOWNTOWN OSHKOSH INC | $350 |
| OSHKOSH COMMUNITY YMCA | $150 |
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 (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
32 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +54%
- FVFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +28%
DAY BY DAY SHELTER INC6× · 2018–2023 · $26k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NW GREAT LAKESone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
To provide leadership and to serve and represent our members so their businesses and our communities will prosper.
To support the mission and activities of the oshkosh area community foundation corporation.
To provide leadership, direction, coordination, and services to advance economic development in the greater oshkosh area.
Soccer club that develops youth soccer players ages 6 through high school via training, league play, and tournaments.
Stimulate development of the local economy, provide support to existing and prospective employers, serve as a professional resource to local units of government and promote tourism opportunities within oconto county wisconsin.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Oakwood is called to serve a thriving community where seniors live with dignity, connection, and purpose.
The purpose of the oshkosh kids foundation, under the guidance of the social workers and community service partners, is to give immediate support to homeless and struggling kids and families in the oshkosh area. the organization also…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 65 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 OSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAY BY DAY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Oshkosh Community YMCA ↗
- Who funds PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OSHKOSHINC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Nami Oshkosh Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Oshkosh Parks Inc ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE PROMOTIONS 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: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Jek Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area United Way Inc · Otto Bremer Trust
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 Silver Star Brands 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.
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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