· Private foundation
Stephen D and Betty J Gebhardt Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of STEPHEN D AND BETTY J GEBHARDT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARRENS AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC | $6,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC | $5,000 |
| TOMAH YOUTH HOCKEY CLUB INC | $5,000 |
| BRUCES LEGACY INC | $3,000 |
| SOJOURNER'S JOURNEY INC | $2,000 |
| MT LA CROSSE SKI PATROL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BLACK RIVER INC | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GTR CHIPPE | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +31% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BLBruces Legacy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +11%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +125%- MFMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- SMST MATTHEW CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $5k
- FFFAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -48%
- CCCaring Closet Incone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Caring for stray cats and dogs.
To address housing needs of homeless people in Rusk County, WI by providing transitional housing, food, and life skills education.
Charity for homeless persons
It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. we have a mens and womans shelter and a program to help people get back on there feet
Assisting those in need in our area
Provides aid comfort and treatment for dogs and cats subsidizing the cost of expenses spay and neuters. in addition we assist in finding homes for unwanted animals. we also cooperate with police and thoughout munroe county for this purpose
To provide services to the homeless and disadvantaged of our community. Day Shelter Food Program Case Management Children Program Good Samaritan Program- Provide services to homeless being discharged from hospital.
Shelter services inc provides temporary shelter to the homeless from multiple counties and facilitates programs to prevent homelessness through various housing/rent/utility assistance services.
Providing food and clothing for those in need
The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…
Recovery home
Provide shelter & resources for individuals and families in need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Custom Canine Service Dog Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kindness Community Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 27 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 Bruces Legacy Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHASING DAYLIGHT ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds TOMAH YOUTH HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER'S JOURNEY INC PO BOX 244 ↗
- Who funds CUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BLACK RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Caring Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY SHELTERCARE INC ↗
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: Frank G Andres Charitable Trust · The Covia Foundation · Jw Etzelmueller Trust Fund · Bernadette M Otto Charitable Foundation · Thomas B Earle Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Stephen D and Betty J Gebhardt Family 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.
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.