How much did SMITH RUSSELL & VERA PRIVATE FDN 1035004172 grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of SMITH RUSSELL & VERA PRIVATE FDN 1035004172’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

businesspark

2019

medicalbusiness

2020

medicalbusiness

2021

medical

2022

park

2023

catholiccoulee

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $85k
$10k–50k11 grants · $179k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

VITERBO UNIVERSITY$26,000
Aquinas Catholic Schools Foundation$25,000
LA CROSSE AREA FAMILY YMCA$19,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$17,500
GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY$15,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
WTC FOUNDATION$15,000
UWL Alumni & Friends Foundation$12,500
Salvation Army$12,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$11,000
Samaritan's Purse$10,000
LA CROSSE VALLEY VIEW ROTARY CLUB$7,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters$5,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER$5,000
UFAH$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.9M · 34 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

Still filing today

50%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

VU
VITERBO UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +2%
GR
GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY
8× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +20%
WT
WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
6× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +83%

Funded once

SJ
ST JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL
one grant, 2021 · $25k
LC
LA CROSSE PROMISE
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -28%
AC
AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2017 · $20k

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.

Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of

Education

La Crosse City Vision Foundation Inc

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University of Wisconsin La Crosse -

The mission of the university of wisconsin - la crosse alumni association is to support the university of wisconsin- la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.

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Holy Cross Village At Notre Dame

An interdependent community energized by holy cross spirituality and hospitality, and dedicated to providing a nurturing environment focused on dignity and respect.

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La Crosse Lions Charities Inc

Vision screening in local school. Provide eye exams and glasses for needy individuals. Support of organizations that help vision impaired, hearing impaired, disabled and needy individuals. Volunteer for events sponsored by community…

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L'arche Chicago Inc

L'arche chicago provides a home life where people with and without intellectual disabilities live together as peers, create inclusive relationships and transform society to the greater public. l'arche chicago is an intentional community…

Health

Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre

Produce theater performances for community

Arts & Culture

Gundersen Lutheran Health System Inc

To support gundersen lutheran medical center, inc. and gundersen clinic, ltd. and/or their affiliates' programs of health care, medical education, medical research and community health promotion activities within the meaning of sec…

Health

La Crosse Youth Symphony

To foster, promote and increase the musical knowledge and appreciation of the public, exclusively by educational activities, by organizing and presenting performances of music by youth in the city of la crosse, wisconsin and surrounding…

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La Crosse Area Development Corp

The purpose of the corporation shall be to actively facilitate and promote economic development and business retention in the la crosse area. this shall be accomplished by focusing on the "triad of development": the attraction of industry,…

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La Crosse Toddle Inn Daycare

Provides childcare

Human Services

Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc

Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of La Crosse Inc and the most unlike its peers is La Crosse Community Theatre. 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/33

the rest of the field

34/659

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.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

20/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,324,166Education$318,000Human Services$141,500Arts & Culture$138,500Philanthropy$108,000Health$79,000Religion$40,000

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.

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.

La Crosse Community FoundationWI52.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Tpi Foundation Inc 1045002342 · Xcel Energy Foundation · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Locher Family Foundation Trust 1045001227 · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881

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 organisation SMITH RUSSELL & VERA PRIVATE FDN 1035004172 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~118 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 930833338 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 118 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn 1035004172 through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SMITH RUSSELL & VERA PRIVATE FDN 1035004172

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn 1035004172?

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SMITH RUSSELL & VERA PRIVATE FDN 1035004172

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn 1035004172?

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