· Private foundation
Stanley Zebro Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,561 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MOSINEE AREA ACTION CLUB | $2,000 |
| TOM OR JAYNE BLOOMER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | $500 |
| University of WI Madison | $500 |
| UW - LACROSSE | $500 |
| UW-STOUT FBO HANNAH BLOCK | $500 |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | $500 |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSt Paul Catholic School4× · 2018–2021 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2020–2025 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2023–2025 · $9k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- SPST PAUL SCHOOLone 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.
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.
University of wisconsin foundation aids university of wisconsin-madison by soliciting gifts & bequests, administers & invests securities & properties, & distributes payments for the benefit of university of wisconsin - madison.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To partner strategically with the university of wisconsin-waukesha in order to promote its programs, support its students and campus
To give members, communities, and one another the inspiration, resources, and support to achieve financial wellness.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The foundation supports northcentral technical college.
The foundation exists to support the university of wisconsin - green bay in its quest to provide an education to all who seek one. this is done through scholarship, research support, capital acquisitions, and investing in the staff and…
Promote private giving and help the university move into the forefront of public higher education.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 74 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stanley Zebro Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stanley Zebro Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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