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The Boldt Family Fund Inc

To support the charitable interests of the boldt family foundation which include providing grants to charitable organizations interested in scientific, health, the performing arts and literary and/or educational purposes.

$925k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$7.8MArts & Culture$5.4MHealth$4.1MPhilanthropy$893kYouth Development$772kHuman Services$525kHousing & Shelter$289kEmployment$285kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $765,444, the rows itemized in this filing. The $924,805 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $159,361 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $465k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $232k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TROUT MUSEUM OF ART$118,910
FOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$60,000
THE BUILDING FOR KIDS$52,607
CAP SERVICES-STEVENS POINT$30,000
RIPON COLLEGE$26,066
MARIAN UNIVERSITY$26,016
WMC FOUNDATION$25,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC$25,000
FRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED$23,033
PENINSULA MUSIC FESTIVAL$20,000
APPLETON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$20,000
SAMARITAN$20,000
NEWVOICES$15,000
APRICITY$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $707k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAP SERVICES: $30k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA: $10k → 10%CAP SERVICES-STEVENS POINT: $60k → 10%CAP SERVICES-STEVENS POINT: $30k → 10%CAP SERVICES-STEVENS POINT: $30k → 10%CAP SERVICES-STEVENS POINT: $30k → 10%CAP SERVICES-STEVENS POINT: $30k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY: $32k → 7%CAP SERVICES-STEVENS POINT: $30k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY: $26k → 7%YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES: $150k → 7%YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES: $101k → 7%YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES: $99k → 7%YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES: $50k → 7%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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
OK
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 69 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
53

Total granted

$17M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+18%

Still filing today

91%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +56%
  • RC
    RIPON COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +58%
  • FU
    FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • WH
    WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2.0M · revenue +122%
  • PP
    PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -34%
  • FV
    FOX VALLEY FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY INC APPLETON
    one grant, 2023 · $112k · revenue -93%
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
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
7
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
10
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

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11
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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12
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Domestic Abuse Support Center of Shawano County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

133 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. 133 of the 140 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/133
Grantees still filing
88/133
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST OLAF COLLEGE: $1,971,445 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGERIPON COLLEGE: $1,796,066 · EducationRIPON COLLEGELAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $640,000 · EducationLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSI…FRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED: $523,033 · EducationFRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INC…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $519,280 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDAT…+13 more: $481,134 · Education+13 moreWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDAT…FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $855,715 · Arts & CultureFOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS C…THE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC: $703,607 · Arts & CultureTHE BUILDING FOR KIDS INCTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $422,393 · Arts & CultureTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INCATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INC: $291,431 · Arts & CultureATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INCPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureDOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $247,393 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $464,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreFINLANDIA UNIVERSITY: $1,530,000 · OtherFINLANDIA UNIVERSITYFOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $540,000 · OtherFOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCH…LAKELAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 · OtherLAKELAND UNIVERSITY FOUN…SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $371,000 · OtherSAMARITAN COUNSELING CEN…HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $175,044 · Other+43 more: $1,451,517 · Other+43 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $1,314,752 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $149,417 · HealthMARSHFIELD C…CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthAURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA INC: $97,837 · HealthDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $94,567 · Health+24 more: $474,100 · Health+24 moreThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc: $969,050 · PhilanthropyThedaCare …UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $321,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $187,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $86,500 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO UNITED: $75,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $228,500 · Philanthropy+8 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES: $399,544 · Human ServicesCAP SERVICES INC: $240,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $57,500 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesWISCONSIN VETERAN'S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $105,500 · Housing & ShelterGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $73,000 · Housing & ShelterDOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC: $21,000 · Housing & ShelterPILLARS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCOTS INC: $11,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,500 · Housing & Shelter
Education$5,930,958Arts & Culture$5,235,039Other$4,597,561Health$2,350,673Philanthropy$1,970,050Human Services$707,044Housing & Shelter$236,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $1,971,445 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetRIPON COLLEGE: $1,796,066 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetFINLANDIA UNIVERSITY: $1,530,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $1,314,752 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc: $969,050 over 6y, 19% of budgetFOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $855,715 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetTHE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC: $703,607 over 7y, 14% of budgetLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $640,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $540,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetLAKELAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetFRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED: $523,033 over 2y, 88% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $519,280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $422,393 over 3y, 82% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES: $399,544 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $371,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $321,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INC: $291,431 over 4y, 35% of budgetPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetDOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $247,393 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetCAP SERVICES INC: $240,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $187,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $175,044 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $149,417 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWMC FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetDoor County YMCA INC: $124,135 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES COLORADO FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFOX VALLEY FAMILY PRACTICE RESIDENCY INC APPLETON: $112,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWISCONSIN VETERAN'S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $105,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetASCENSION ST ELIZABETH FOUNDATION INC: $103,100 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA MEDICAL CENTER BAY AREA INC: $97,837 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $94,567 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC: $91,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $86,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $85,520 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO UNITED: $75,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNEWVOICES INC: $74,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $74,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $73,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBERGSTROM-MAHLER MUSEUM INC: $68,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $67,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN UNIVERSITY INC: $64,479 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLETON BOYCHOIR INC: $62,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $61,500 over 2y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Green Bay Packers Fou…US Ventureschmidt Fam…J J Keller Foundation…Greater Green Bay Com…Oshkosh Area Communit…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Doug & Carla Salmon F…Mielke Family Foundat…The Clarence Wallace …Oshkosh Corporation F…
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI110.9× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation Inc · Mielke Family Foundation Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Boldt Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Boldt Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 140 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 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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