· Private foundation
Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of SMITH RUSSELL & VERA PRIVATE FDN XXXXXX4172’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $186k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UWL Alumni & Friends Foundation | $30,000 |
| VITERBO UNIVERSITY | $26,000 |
| Aquinas Catholic Schools Foundation | $25,000 |
| LA CROSSE AREA FAMILY YMCA | $17,000 |
| Gundersen Medical Foundation | $16,667 |
| GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WTC FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $14,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $12,500 |
| LA CROSSE VALLEY VIEW ROTARY CLUB | $8,000 |
| Salvation Army | $7,500 |
| St Clare Health Mission | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| The Parenting Place | $5,000 |
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, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- VUVITERBO UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $234k · revenue +11%
- LCLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +36%
- GRGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- LCLA CROSSE PROMISE INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +12%
- LCLA CROSSE NEIGHBORHOODS INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -35%
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 support university of wisconsin la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.
The mission of the la crosse public education foundation is to enhance learning opportunities for students in the school district of la crosse and to promote community understanding and support for public education.
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,…
To be a progressive business resource, growing companies and developing leaders through collaboration, advocacy, information, and services that benefit current and future businesses.
Low income housing facility for elderly, handicapped, or chronically mentally ill residents.
The weber center for the performing arts is a collaborative venue supporting the missions of la crosse community theatre and viterbo university. the weber center serves as a performance and administrative center for la crosse community…
Connecting people, passion, and giving in the la crosse area forever.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
We are a non-profit, member-owned financial organization. we strive to provide financial services, education, and the long-term stability of the credit union by: encouraging thrift among our members; creating a source of credit at a fair…
To establish individual community resources that will support, preserve and enhance the dignity and rights of those with mental health and associated substance use disorders, and in doing so, seek their own level of recovery and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Symphony Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
34 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. 34 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 VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Community Theatre ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL - LA CROSSE VALLEY VIEW ↗
- Who funds ROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES ↗
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: La Crosse Community Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Alm Charities Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Trust Point Foundation Inc Xxxxxx2342 · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services 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 Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 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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