· Private foundation
The Klug Family Foundation
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 $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY NAME OF JESUS EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $13,200 |
| RAWHIDE BOYS RANCH | $7,500 |
| WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR DEAF & BLIND | $4,000 |
| LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC | $4,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR RELIGIOUS RETIREMENT | $4,000 |
| LIFE'S CONNECTION | $3,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA - WISCONSIN CHAPTER | $3,000 |
| ASHIPPUN LIONS CLUB | $1,500 |
| VCY AMERICA | $1,000 |
| VILLAGE OF LAC LABELLE POLICE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
| ASHIPPUN FIRE DEPT INC | $1,000 |
| NEOSHO-RUBICON-ASHIPPUN POLICE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- RIRAWHIDE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +72%
- WRWISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND5× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +5%
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $6k
- SLST LAWRENCE SEMINARY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
We provide comprehensive hospice care services, supportive care for pain & symptom management for those with serious illness, and grief support. through our mission, willamette vital health supports adults and children living with a…
Aac's purpose is to build up and defend great commission anglican churches in north america through developing faithful leaders, equipping local churches and engaging the church and culture with gospel clarity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 43 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.
20 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. 20 of the 58 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 RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ASHIPPUN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Paralyzed Veterans of America - Wisconsin Chapter ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VCY AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Troops Direct ↗
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 Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Klug 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.
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