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Stanek Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$24kHealth$22kEducation$15kInternational$6kCrime & Legal$6kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$3kMembership Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$350
Median grant
2
States reached
$253k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM - SAINT MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION$8,520
SEED OF HOPE CENTER$5,000
KIPSONGO PROJECT$1,000
THE SALESIANUM TRUST$1,000
CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL-BSA$500
GREEN LAKE PROPERTY OWNERS' ASSOCIATION$500
RIVET ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB$350
NICHES LAND TRUST$275
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION VINCENNES CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$250
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART$100
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$100
ALPHA XI DELTA FOUNDATION$100
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS WISCONSIN STATE COUNCIL$50
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $200 → 14%ANGELS' PLACE: $500 → 8%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $6k → 5%ANGELS PLACE: $250 → 8%FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY: $472 → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
IN
CT
CA
CO
KY
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57k · 16 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
21

Total granted

$57k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

31%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SO
    SEED OF HOPE CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +51%
  • TK
    The Kipsongo Project Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +24%
  • AX
    ALPHA XI DELTA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • TF
    TDMAW FORWARD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ST DISMAS
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +13%
  • AA
    ACAP ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
Nmdp Foundation

Raises funds to support the national marrow donor program (nmdp) mission: we save lives through cellular therapy.

Philanthropy
2
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
3
St Vincent De Paul Society of Milwaukee

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of milwaukee is to eliminate poverty and hunger.

Human Services
4
St Mary's Foundation Inc

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

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5
Our Lady of Hope Clinic Inc

Our lady of hope clinic is a direct primary care clinic that gives at least 55% of its services to the uninsured at no cost, consistent with the catholic health care tradition.

Health
6
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
7
Trinity Hospital Twin City

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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8
Wisconsin Center for Nursing Inc

The mission of wisconsin center for nursing, inc. is to assure an adequate, well-prepared and diverse nurse workforce for the people of wisconsin. the work of the wisconsin center for nursing continues to be focused in five core nursing…

Arts & Culture
9
Southern Lakes Credit Union

We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.

—
10
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
11
Hope for the Heart
—
12
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of Peace; the most unlike its peers is Society of St Vincent De Paul Waukesha County Inc St Dismas. 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

15 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. 15 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM - SAINT MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: $16,100 · OtherSPONSORSHIP PROGRAM - SAINT MARY'S IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONTDMAW FORWARD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTDMAW FORWARD FOUNDATIONKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS KETTLE MORAINE COUNCIL 3562: $3,000 · OtherKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS KETTLE MORAINE COUNCIL 3562ACAP ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM: $2,500 · OtherCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · OtherPURDUE FOUNDATION: $2,250 · OtherST CHARLES CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $2,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: $2,000 · OtherST CHARLES CATHOLIC PARISH: $1,900 · Other+21 more: $10,275 · Other+21 moreSEED OF HOPE CENTER INC: $17,500 · HealthSEED OF HOPE CENTER IN…+1 more: $250 · HealthSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ST DISMAS: $6,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY O…ANGELS' PLACE: $750 · Human ServicesANGELS' P…FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY INC: $472 · Human ServicesFULL SHEL…+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesThe Kipsongo Project Inc: $5,000 · InternationalSIMPLE HOPE CORPORATION: $1,000 · InternationalALPHA XI DELTA FOUNDATION: $2,200 · EducationWCTC FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropySAVING TINY HEARTS SOCIETY: $500 · PhilanthropyIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC: $720 · Religion
Other$52,525Health$17,750Human Services$7,422International$6,000Education$2,200Philanthropy$1,500Religion$720

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEED OF HOPE CENTER INC: $17,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ST DISMAS: $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Kipsongo Project Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetCROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA XI DELTA FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWCTC FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPLE HOPE CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetANGELS' PLACE: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING TINY HEARTS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY INC: $472 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $200 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds SEED OF HOPE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ST DISMAS ↗
  • Who funds The Kipsongo Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA XI DELTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WCTC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMPLE HOPE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
  • Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVING TINY HEARTS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds NICHES LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI16.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Stanek Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanek Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Stanek Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Stanek 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 42 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-PF 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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