· Private foundation
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PIUS X CHURCH | $9,025 |
| AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC | $5,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF THE WORLD | $1,000 |
| HOLY SPIRIT SCHOOL | $500 |
| PAUL VAN HANDEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| MISS AMAZING FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
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 (FY21–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MOMISSIONARIES OF THE WORD INC4× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue ×106
- TPThe Paul Van Handel Memorial Foundation4× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +86%
- SOSIGNS OF THE TIMES APOSTOLATE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- DWDOWN WITH MYLESTONES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SIST IGNATIUS CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $3k
- LOLEGATUS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSINone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…
Catholics for Catholics is fighting to bring the Catholic faith back into the public square through rosary rallies, media, political action and more!
To make euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and destruction of human embryos socially, ethically, and legally unacceptable solutions to human problems and to promote positive alternatives to these acts.
Action for life promotes, upholds, and supports efforts to protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death through education, advocacy, and prayer as well as by supporting traditional family values.
Publish catholic books in support of eternal word television network, inc.
Our mission is to provide content that empowers people to grow spiritually, improve relationships, engage in dialogue and foster collaboration within the Church and throughout society.
To support pro-life organizations.
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for a Christian Civilization Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Paul Van Handel Memorial Foundation. 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 55 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 AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR A CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONARIES OF THE WORD INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds The Paul Van Handel Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC YOUTH EXPEDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNS OF THE TIMES APOSTOLATE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SOULS AND LIBERTY FKA CHURCH MILITANT ↗
- Who funds LEGATUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SPINAL CORD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Appleton Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds 101 Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ESTO VIR 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: 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
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 Sumnicht Family 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.
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.