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The Gotzion Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$238kHealth$109kReligion$88kArts & Culture$82kFood & Nutrition$65kRecreation & Sports$23kHuman Services$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ashley For The Arts$10,025
Food for the Poor$8,384
Clean Air-Healthy Air Fair$5,000
St Olaf Catholic Church$5,000
St Albert the Great Catholic Church$5,000
Bryce Harman UW Whitewater$4,500
Fight Colorectal Cancer$4,120
PACT-Program of Assertive Community$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,650
Robert Mahair UW-Madison$3,000
Jeremiah Wallis UW Stevens Point$3,000
Jackson Nesbitt UW-Madison$3,000
Ruby Olson Coe College$3,000
Keng Vang Madison College$3,000
Elaina Maki UW Green Bay$3,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $5k) 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.

area typical 9%Custom Canines Service Dog Academy: $3k → 10%Custom Canines Service Dog Academy: $1k → 10%Custom Canines Service Dog Academy: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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DC
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of The Gotzion Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Gotzion Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$416k · 20 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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90

Total granted

$416k
$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+29%

Still filing today

30%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • AF
    ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +83%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +141%
  • FC
    FIGHT COLORECTAL CANCER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • JL
    Joseph Lynch The Laboure Society
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • HA
    Hannah Anderson Gogebic Community C
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • GK
    Gabrial Kennedy Olivet Nazarene Uni
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colon Cancer Coalition Inc

To improve health outcomes by reducing barriers to complete colorectal cancer screening and educating the public to advocate for their own health through tailored, local, grassroots solutions.

Health
2
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
3
The Cancer Foundation Inc

The cancer foundation's mission is to alleviate the financial burden of cancer.

Health
4
Appetite for Change Inc

Community-led food justice organization using food as a tool for building health, wealth, and social change.

Human Services
5
Fcancer

FCANCER IS dedicated to advancing health equity through early detection and prevention programs, and by providing resources to navigate, manage, and cope with cancer.

Health
6
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
7
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
8
Community Kitchen

Food service for the poor, economically disadvantaged, and elderly.

Food & Nutrition
9
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
10
Lets Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

Let's Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation (the Organization") is a go-to resource that guides patients and caregivers with vital information for better outcomes. Through a dynamic online platform available in English and Spanish, everyone who…

Health
11
National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

To deliver unwavering support for patients and families fighting pancreatic cancer.

Health
12
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc

Our mission is to take bold action to improve the lives of everyone impacted by pancreatic cancer by advancing scientific research, building community, sharing knowledge, and advocating for patients.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Deforest Windsor Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 119 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST OLAF CATHOLIC CHURCH — $44,000 · OtherST OLAF CATHOLIC CHURCHSt Albert the Great Catholic Church — $43,000 · OtherSt Albert the Great Catholic ChurchPACT-Program of Assertive Community — $35,500 · OtherPACT-Program of Assertive CommunityIndividual grant recipient — $17,700 · OtherSalvation Army — $15,500 · Other+104 more — $304,857 · Other+104 moreNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $29,000 · HealthNATIONAL B…FIGHT COLORECTAL CANCER INC — $17,120 · HealthFIGHT COLO…COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $16,000 · HealthCOLORECTAL…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $61,984 · InternationalFOOD FOR T…ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS — $60,025 · Arts & CultureASHLEY FOR…CUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesNORSKI SOCCER CLUB INC — $2,500 · Recreation & SportsDEFOREST WINDSOR FOOD PANTRY INC — $2,000 · Food & NutritionRWD YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC — $500 · Youth Development
Other$460,557Health$62,120International$61,984Arts & Culture$60,025Human Services$6,000Recreation & Sports$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,000Youth Development$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $61,984 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetASHLEY FOR THE ARTS — $60,025 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFIGHT COLORECTAL CANCER INC — $17,120 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDEFOREST WINDSOR FOOD PANTRY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS
  • Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FIGHT COLORECTAL CANCER INC
  • Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE
  • Who funds CUSTOM CANINE SERVICE DOG ACADEMY 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.

Baird Foundation IncWI11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Gotzion 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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