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Sumnicht Family 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.

$17k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
32%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,025
Organizations funded a year
7 to 25
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$717k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Sumnicht Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$17k33%
FY202425$109k32%
FY202322$32k64%
FY20227$11k57%
FY202111$15k55%
FY202010$11k50%
FY201716$20kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$177kArts & Culture$8kCivil Rights$5kCrime & Legal$5kEducation$4kInternational$4kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
DE
KS
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Marys Catholic Church$83,0002n/a
American Life League Inc$3,50030%
The Foundation for a Christian Civilization Inc$3,50030%
Missionaries of the Word Inc$3,30041%
Unbound$3,05030%
The Remnant$3,0002n/a
The Paul Van Handel Memorial Foundation$2,50041%
Catholic Youth Expeditions Inc$2,40031%
Signs of the Times Apostolate Inc$2,00020%
Our Rescue$1,50020%
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All grantees of Sumnicht Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Marys Catholic Church$83,0002n/a
American Life League Inc$3,50030%
The Foundation for a Christian Civilization Inc$3,50030%
Missionaries of the Word Inc$3,30041%
Unbound$3,05030%
The Remnant$3,0002n/a
The Paul Van Handel Memorial Foundation$2,50041%
Catholic Youth Expeditions Inc$2,40031%
Signs of the Times Apostolate Inc$2,00020%
Our Rescue$1,50020%
Souls and Liberty Fka Church Militant$1,50020%
Legatus Foundation$1,3071n/a
Cath League for Religious & Civil Rights$1,10010%
Spinal Cord Society$1,03530%
St Michael's Media Inc$1,00010%
Appleton Historical Society Inc$1,00012%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc$75020%
Catholic Foundation for the Diocese of Green Bay Inc$7501n/a
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc$75021%
101 Foundation Inc$70010%
Esto Vir Inc$5001n/a
National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion Inc$5001n/a
Human Life International Inc$50010%
Padre Pio Foundation of America Inc$50030%
Population Research Institute Inc$50010%
Sisters of Life$5001n/a
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$25010%
Life Promotions Inc$20010%
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Bvm$2002n/a
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sumnicht Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Life League Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for a Christian Civilization Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMissionaries of the Word Inc: $3,300 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUnbound: $3,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Paul Van Handel Memorial Foundation: $2,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCatholic Youth Expeditions Inc: $2,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSigns of the Times Apostolate Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOur Rescue: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouls and Liberty Fka Church Militant: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCath League for Religious & Civil Rights: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpinal Cord Society: $1,035 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSt Michael's Media Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppleton Historical Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPro-Life Wisconsin Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.5% of budget101 Foundation Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Life International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPadre Pio Foundation of America Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPopulation Research Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife Promotions Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Mercy Works FoundationWI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mercy Works Foundation · John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr · David Dinnocenti Memorial Foundation · Cousineau Family Charity · Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation · The Salem Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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.

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About Sumnicht Family Foundation

How much does Sumnicht Family Foundation give?
Sumnicht Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $16,525 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Sumnicht Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (82%), Arts & Culture (3%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are Sumnicht Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Marys Catholic Church ($83k), American Life League Inc ($4k), The Foundation for a Christian Civilization Inc ($4k).
Does Sumnicht Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sumnicht Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sumnicht Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mercy Works Foundation, John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr, David Dinnocenti Memorial Foundation.
Where is Sumnicht Family Foundation based?
Sumnicht Family Foundation is based in WI.

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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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