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The Flood Family Foundation at a glance

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The Flood 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.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$165kFood & Nutrition$109kEnvironment$37kPhilanthropy$29kHuman Services$12kArts & Culture$8kHealth$8kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAKING ROOTS FARMS$100,000
LOVE OF LEARNING MONTESSORI SCHOOL$25,000
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 (FY17–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISLAND HARVEST: $1k → 6%SOLUTIONS CENTER: $4k → 9%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

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ID
WI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
UT
MO
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DC
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$201k · 8 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
27

Total granted

$201k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+26%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LO
    LOVE OF LEARNING MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +43%
  • WM
    William & Mary Foundation
    5× · 2018–2022 · $35k · revenue +129%
  • FF
    FONDY FOOD PANTRY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT OF N FOND DU LAC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • FA
    FRIENDS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +12%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
12
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Academy; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

23 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. 23 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAKING ROOTS FARMS: $100,000 · OtherTAKING ROOTS FARMSGOTTFRIED PRAIRIE AND ARBORETUM: $35,038 · OtherGOTTFRIED PRAIRIE AND ARBORETUMFOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION: $27,770 · OtherFOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATIONFONDY FOOD PANTRY: $8,250 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF N FOND DU LAC: $7,500 · OtherPORTLEDGE SCHOOL: $7,250 · Other+13 more: $24,966 · Other+13 moreLOVE OF LEARNING MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $104,000 · EducationLOVE OF LEARNING MONTESSORI SCHOOLWilliam & Mary Foundation: $35,000 · EducationWilliam & Mary Foundation+2 more: $5,000 · EducationSOLUTIONS CENTER INC: $3,750 · Human ServicesISLAND HARVEST LTD: $1,000 · Human ServicesSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentGLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $346 · Arts & CultureTHE NORTHPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM: $250 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $200 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $100 · Arts & CultureAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $500 · HealthTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$210,774Education$144,000Human Services$4,750Housing & Shelter$3,000Environment$2,000Arts & Culture$1,896Health$1,500Civil Rights$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOVE OF LEARNING MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $104,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION: $27,770 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFONDY FOOD PANTRY: $8,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLEDGE SCHOOL: $7,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS ACADEMY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLUTIONS CENTER INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHALA'S HOPE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $346 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTHPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSundance Institute: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCREEN ACTORS GUILD-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS FOUND: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Kevin and Connie Mich…Grande FoundationAlliant Energy Founda…Patrick & Marysue Mic…Agnesian Healthcare I…Mike Shannon Automoti…Mid-States Aluminum F…Michels Family Founda…Fond Du Lac Area Foun…Green Bay Packers Fou…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Kevin and Connie Michels Family FoundationWI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Grande Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Michels Family Foundation · Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 37 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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