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Stimac Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$890k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$17MEducation$12MHousing & Shelter$723kHuman Services$697kYouth Development$575kEmployment$310kHealth$180kInternational$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $504k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
$43,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MISSION EVANGELICAL CHURCH$890,000
DIVINE SAVIOR MINISTRIES$700,000
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE$415,000
TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY$350,000
KINGDOM WORKERS$325,000
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL$153,500
GRACE IN ACTION$150,000
CHRISTIAN FAMILY SOLUTIONS$100,000
MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION$100,000
ABIDING WORD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$43,000
CROSSWALK MINISTRIES' CROSSTRAIN TEXAS$25,000
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$20,000
THE CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK$20,000
MAY RIVER LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
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 (FY17–23, $660k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SERENITY INNS: $100k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $100k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $50k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $50k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $50k → 17%MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $75k → 17%MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $75k → 17%MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $60k → 17%MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY BUSINES COLLABORATIVE INC: $50k → 17%MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $50k → 17%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

ID
MN
WI
MI
MO
VA
AZ
NC
SC
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Stimac Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Stimac Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 42 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +70% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
13

Total granted

$31M
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+70%

Still filing today

31%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +33%
  • TO
    TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +40%
  • WE
    WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +163%
  • AC
    A CITY FOR GOD
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • LF
    LUTHERANS FOR LIFE
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
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
Wisconsin Christian Campus Ministries Inc

Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.

Religion
2
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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4
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

The lausanne movement exists to activate the body of christ to accelerate global mission together through convening global influencers, creating biblically grounded missional content, fostering catalytic collaboration, and equipping…

Religion
5
Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots Us

Lutheran indian ministries shares the gospel of jesus christ with native american people, encouraging them to proclaim christ's kingdom to their own and to others.

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6
Coalition for Christian Outreach

The cco (coalition for christian outreach) is an interdenominational campus ministry organization with a mission of "transforming college students to transform the world." the cco is supported primarily through donor contributions and…

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7
Mid-America Reformed Seminary

Mid-america reformed seminary seeks to serve the church by preparing students for gospel ministry as pastors, or those whose service to the church may be enhanced by theological education.

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8
Graceland University

See schedule othe primary mission of graceland university is to be a learning community, where students develop their potential for meaningful and productive lives through intellectual, physical, social and spiritual growth. this mission…

Education
9
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
10
Marian University Inc

Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…

Education
11
Christians in Commerce Intl

To encourage and equip christians to be god's presence in the workplace by the power of the holy spirit, exercising faith, integrity, and excellence.

Philanthropy
12
Luther House of Study

Grounded in lutheran theology, we strengthen lutheran leadership and ministries for the proclamation of the gospel.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Kingdom Workers Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 59 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
16/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $6,199,293 · OtherWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INCTHE MISSION EVANGELICAL CHURCH: $3,541,850 · OtherTHE MISSION EVANGELICAL CHURCHWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD (WELS): $3,468,467 · OtherWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD (WELS)KINGDOM PREP LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $1,400,000 · OtherKINGDOM PREP LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL INCDIVINE SAVIOR MINISTRIES: $1,300,000 · OtherDIVINE SAVIOR MINISTRIES+39 more: $5,680,700 · Other+39 moreTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $2,818,000 · ReligionTIME OF GRACE MINISTR…WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $2,458,440 · ReligionWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL…Chaplains in Schools Inc: $530,000 · ReligionChaplains in Schools …+2 more: $140,000 · ReligionCENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC: $1,800,000 · EducationCENTER FO…Grace in Action: $548,000 · EducationGrace in …MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $340,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE…+1 more: $60,000 · EducationSERENITY INNS INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesJOBSWORK MKE INC: $310,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $575,000 · Youth DevelopmentBREAD OF HEALING INC: $180,000 · Health+1 more: $300 · HealthMILWAUKEE STING VOLLEYBALL CLUB INC: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$21,590,310Religion$5,946,440Education$2,748,000Human Services$660,000Youth Development$575,000Health$180,300Recreation & Sports$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $6,199,293 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $2,818,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $2,458,440 over 8y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC: $1,800,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC: $575,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetGrace in Action: $548,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetChaplains in Schools Inc: $530,000 over 6y, 90% of budgetSERENITY INNS INC: $350,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $340,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJOBSWORK MKE INC: $310,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBREAD OF HEALING INC: $180,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE STING VOLLEYBALL CLUB INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $300 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 WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Grace in Action ↗
  • Who funds Chaplains in Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY INNS INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
  • Who funds JOBSWORK MKE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD OF HEALING INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE 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.

Siebert Lutheran Foundation IncWI36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Antioch Foundation 1015002041 · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Holzhueter Foundation · Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Arvid W & Judy R Schwartz Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers 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 Stimac Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stimac Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Stimac Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Stimac Family Foundation 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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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