· Private foundation
Chernick Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k30 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| NE WI RUGBY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASPIRO | $10,000 |
| FLY WITH THE PHOENIX COLLECTIVE INC | $5,000 |
| UW GREEN BAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| YWCA | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY | $2,500 |
| ON BROADWAY INC | $2,500 |
| GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| POLICE OFFICERS' BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ASSOC OF THE CITY OF GREEN BAY WI | $1,750 |
| ST NORBERT COLLEGE - CASSANDRA VOSS CENTER | $1,500 |
| CEREBRAL PALSEY INC | $1,500 |
| BAY LAKES COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 13 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- TBTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +673%
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $44k · revenue +22%- AIASPIRO INC7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- PHPREBLE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $6k
- VOVILLAGE OF HOBART (POLICE & FIRE DEPT)one grant, 2022 · $5k
- CCCONGREGATION CNESSES ISRAEL TEMPLEone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To provide all young people with opportunities to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible individuals.
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.
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
Bring together businesses and sole proprietors who share the common business interest of supporting and promoting the green bay business community during the national football league ('nfl') draft taking place in the green bay, wisconsin…
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
The purpose of the organization is exclusively for charitable, educational, scientific , or religious purposes under the wisconsin not-stock corporation law chapter 181.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bay Care Clinic Foundation Ltd. 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 29 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 143 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 THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRO INC ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗
- Who funds Ne Wi Rugby Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY PREBLE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Daniel Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLY WITH THE PHOENIX COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOBILE GALLERY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN SINGERS ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS IN RECITAL 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: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Michael & Leanne Haddad Family Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Bellin Memorial Hospital Inc · Weyers Family Foundation 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 Chernick Family Foundation Inc 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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