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Spierings Cancer Foundation Inc

We help local families battling with cancer, enhance cancer treatment in the fox valley area of wisconsin, and fund cancer research in wisconsin.

$410k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.2MEducation$25k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $130,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $410,071 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $280,071 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$396k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THEDACARE FAMILY OF FOUNDATIONS$75,000
ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$10,000
HSHS ST VINCENTST MARY'S FOUNDATION$10,000
YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES$10,000
THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES: $10k → 7%YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$857k · 10 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$857k
$324k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AN
    ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $303k · revenue +95%
  • TF
    ThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +280%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $210k · revenue +7%
  • CW
    CHILDRENS WI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $64k
  • AS
    ASCENSION ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Foundation for St Francis and Franklin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

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2
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Southeast Wisconsin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
3
Ascension St Francis Hospital Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
4
Ascension Se Wisconsin Hospital Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
5
Ascension All Saints Hospital Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
6
Ministry Health Care Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

—
7
Ascension Wisconsin Pharmacy Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
8
Foundation of Saint Clare's Hospital of Weston Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

—
9
Wheaton Franciscan - Elmbrook Memorial Foundation Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

—
10
St Mary's Foundation Inc

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

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11
Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
12
Ascension Medical Group-Southeast Wisconsin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Ne Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $302,500 · HealthASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCSt Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s: $78,500 · HealthSt Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order…Hospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc: $65,000 · HealthHospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation IncCHILDRENS WI FOUNDATION: $64,100 · OtherCHILDRENS WI FOUNDA…MEDICAL COLLEGE OF MILWAUKEE: $57,500 · OtherMEDICAL COLLEGE OF …ASCENSION ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherASCENSION ST ELIZAB…Individual grant recipient: $24,500 · OtherIndividual grant re…YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES: $10,000 · OtherThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyThedaCare Family…ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $73,630 · PhilanthropyASCENSION WISCON…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $95,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES: $20,000 · Human Services
Health$656,000Other$206,100Philanthropy$173,630Education$135,000Human Services$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $302,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s: $78,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $73,630 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetASCENSION ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …The Boldt Family Fund…American Cancer Socie…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spierings Cancer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spierings Cancer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Spierings Cancer Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Spierings Cancer Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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