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Sonnentag American Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$908k
Granted FY2024still arriving
106
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Human Services$322kYouth Development$298kHealth$247kArts & Culture$97kEducation$93kFood & Nutrition$82kPublic Benefit$65kAnimals$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k66 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $633k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC$56,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC DBA CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN$50,000
PATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSIN INC$36,000
ACPA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION$35,967
PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC$30,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS UNITED OF WISCONSIN$28,500
ROOT TO RISE INC$28,000
CREW COLLABORATIVE$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN INC$25,000
AMY SCHULZ CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC$25,000
CUSTOM CANINES SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC$25,000
NEXT 18 INC$20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC$20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC$20,000
EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC$18,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC: $10k → 9%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS: $2k → 10%NEXT 18 INC: $20k → 17%AND RISE WOMEN: $7k → 7%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%HOPE OF EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $2k → 18%HEADSUP FOX CITIES CORP: $3k → 6%YWCA ROCK COUNTY: $2k → 10%AND RISE WOMEN INC: $8k → 14%LAKE CARES INC: $12k → 10%CUSTOM CANINES SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC: $25k → 10%LITTLE LAKES MEMORIES: $8k → 11%LAKE CARES: $12k → 10%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $10k → 17%LITTLE LAKES MEMORIES INC: $5k → 11%OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%MASONRY TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 10%MASONRY TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 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

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CT
MO
KY
MD
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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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$871k · 45 repeat orgs$768k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
64

Total granted

$871k
$348k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HY
    HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +20%
  • PA
    PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +345%
  • RT
    ROOT TO RISE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NCWI
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • PK
    PATRIOT K9S OF WI
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

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
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
2
Wisconsin Family Ties Inc

Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…

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3
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
4
Workforce Connections Inc

Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…

Employment
5
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation

Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…

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6
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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7
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Wisconsin Inc

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth

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8
Big Brothers Big Sisters Wi Shoreline Inc

Big brothers big sisters creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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9
West Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board Inc

Workforce development planning, policy guidance, and oversight of workforce development programs in the west central wisconsin workforce development area

Employment
10
Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin Inc

Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.

Housing & Shelter
11
Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program Inc

Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.

Employment
12
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patriot Fund Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…School District FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …United Way AffiliatesCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Food Banks and PantriesEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%10%<5yr12%9%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr19%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%9%<5yr12%13%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr16%43%35–55yr19%3%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/102
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,424

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

90 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. 90 of the 170 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/90
Grantees still filing
47/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Wisconsin Inc — $34,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S COMMUNITY INC — $32,000 · OtherPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · OtherPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INCAMY SCHULZ CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $35,000 · Other+119 more — $755,960 · Other+119 moreCUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCUSTOM CANI…GATEWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $25,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY ALL…Lake Cares Inc — $24,000 · Human ServicesLake Cares …NEXT 18 INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEXT 18 INCAND RISE WOMEN INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesAND RISE WO…LITTLE LAKES MEMORIES INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE LAKE…SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILI…SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER F…TURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTURNINGPOIN…MASONRY TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $6,296 · Human Services+5 more — $13,300 · Human Services+5 moreHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC — $124,500 · PhilanthropyHOWARD YOUN…PATRIOT FUND INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyPATRIOT FUN…RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM OF ROCK COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyRETIRED SEN…SOJOURNER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropySOJOURNER F…+3 more — $5,525 · PhilanthropyACPA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $63,467 · EducationACPA RESE…ROOT TO RISE INC — $40,000 · EducationROOT TO R…SOLDIER STRONG INC — $23,000 · EducationSOLDIER S…EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Education+2 more — $4,799 · EducationCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $22,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC — $18,500 · HealthPRIMARY CONNECTION HEALTH CARE INC — $10,000 · HealthANGEL FOUNDATION — $5,750 · Health+2 more — $2,650 · HealthPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC — $36,000 · Public BenefitWOUNDED WARRIORS UNITED OF WISCONSIN INC — $30,600 · Public Benefit+1 more — $1,000 · Public BenefitCompass for Kids Inc — $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART HAVEN OUTREACH — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc — $2,500 · Youth Development+4 more — $4,730 · Youth Development
Other$916,960Human Services$171,596Philanthropy$170,025Education$136,266Health$108,900Public Benefit$67,600Youth Development$67,230

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 budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC — $124,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetACPA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $63,467 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOT TO RISE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC — $36,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAMY SCHULZ CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Wisconsin Inc — $34,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S COMMUNITY INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS UNITED OF WISCONSIN INC — $30,600 over 2y, 16% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc — $26,725 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCREW COLLABORATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGATEWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING — $25,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLake Cares Inc — $24,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOLDIER STRONG INC — $23,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCompass for Kids Inc — $23,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $22,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES INCORPORATED OF MADISON COUNTY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEXT 18 INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOT FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC — $18,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEART HAVEN OUTREACH — $18,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAND RISE WOMEN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetLITTLE LAKES MEMORIES INC — $13,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMENTOR RICHLAND COUNTY — $13,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF BOONE COUNTY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN INC — $10,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCAMP HOPE INC — $10,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM OF ROCK COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTURNINGPOINT FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRIMARY CONNECTION HEALTH CARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD SERVICE CORPORATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC — $7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMASONRY TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $6,296 over 2y, 31% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $5,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAN PLAY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Otto Bremer TrustChurch Mutual Insuran…Alliant Energy Founda…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Ba & Esther Greenheck…Greater Green Bay Com…Community Foundation …Wisconsin Public Serv…The Macdonald Foundat…Judd S Alexander Foun…United Way of Central…
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI37.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · The Macdonald Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana 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 Sonnentag American 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 · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report 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 170 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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