· Private foundation
Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK | $60,000 |
| HAVEN FOR SPECIAL PEOPLE | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $35,000 |
| LA CROSSE PROMISE | $27,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $20,000 |
| VITERBO UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| WAFER FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS | $15,000 |
| YWCA OF THE COULEE REGION | $15,000 |
| ST CLAIRE HEALTH MISSION | $11,000 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| LA CROSSE AREA YMCA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- VUVITERBO UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2025 · $317k · revenue +5%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS9× · 2017–2025 · $314k · revenue +299%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF LA CROSSEone grant, 2021 · $100k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST SALEMone grant, 2020 · $50k
- VOVILLAGE OF HOLMENone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To support university of wisconsin la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.
Connecting people, passion, and giving in the la crosse area forever.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
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.
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
We are a non-profit, member-owned financial organization. we strive to provide financial services, education, and the long-term stability of the credit union by: encouraging thrift among our members; creating a source of credit at a fair…
The uwl alumni and friends foundation exists to build lifelong relationships and raise private support to advance the mission of the university of wisconsin-la crosse.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Children's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 75 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS ↗
- Who funds COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Haven for Special People ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE DRIFTLESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COULEECAP INC ↗
- Who funds CHILEDA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS BEATING CANCER 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: La Crosse Community Foundation · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Trust Point Foundation Inc Xxxxxx2342 · Alm Charities Inc · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy 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 Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation 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.
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
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.