· Private foundation
Steve and Christa Slinger Family Gift Fund 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: 99% of STEVE AND CHRISTA SLINGER FAMILY GIFT FUND 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $34k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| RANDOLPH SCHOOL DISTRICT - SLINGER | $5,000 |
| CHILD FUND INTL | $4,000 |
| RCF FFA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| LIVING HOPE FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CASA GUADALUPE | $2,000 |
| RANDOLPH COURTLAND UNITED METHODIST | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $1,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF DODGE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK HAWK COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY RED KETTLE CAMPAIGN | $1,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $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 (FY22–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 18 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, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $513k 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
- LHLIVING HOPE FOOD PANTRY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +36%
- CICHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +0%
- PAPEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2.4M
- VOVILLAGE OF RANDOLPH COMMUNITY POOL FUNDone grant, 2023 · $15k
- RSRANDOLPH SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Empower self-care by preserving and expanding choice and availability of consumer healthcare products.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
As the premier provider of consumer-directed personal assistance we empower independence and advocate for people with disabilities, seniors, and their families.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 84 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 LIVING HOPE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Jack and Arlene Schumann Foundation Inc · The Peter J Seippel Foundation Inc · Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Steve and Christa Slinger Family Gift Fund 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.