· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -4% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BLBruces Legacy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +60%
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%
- MCMONROE COUNTY SHELTERCARE INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -4%
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.
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
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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.
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- Who funds KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC ↗
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- 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 MONROE COUNTY SHELTERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Caring Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stephen D and Betty J Gebhardt Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen D and Betty J Gebhardt Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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