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The Manitowoc Company Foundation at a glance

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The Manitowoc Company Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$226k
Granted FY2026still arriving
35
Grants FY2026still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$186kHuman Services$102kPhilanthropy$85kEducation$66kEmployment$38kRecreation & Sports$32kYouth Development$30kCommunity Improvement$29kOther$0
02FY2026 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k33 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKE'S HOUSE$150,000
WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION$20,000
SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS (SCCAP)$7,500
PTSD FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$7,220
UNITED WAY OF MTW COUNTY$6,000
COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES$5,500
LAKE BLUE RIDGE CIVIC ASSOCIATION$5,000
MILWAUKEE WOMEN INC$3,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WI$3,000
PLAY4CADE INC$2,000
GREENCASTLE ANTRIM EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,700
BIRDIES 4 BRAINS MN INC$1,500
ROTARY CLUB OF WAYNESBORO FOUNDATION$1,200
SALVATION ARMY MTW COUNTY$1,000
MISHICOT INDIAN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $18k → 9%THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES: $300 → 12%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $500 → 10%JENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $1k → 14%SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $8k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $8k → 9%STREETLIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $5k → 5%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES & FRIENDS: $1k → 11%LAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES & FRIENDS: $1k → 11%SOLES FOR JESUS INC: $500 → 17%SOLES FOR JESUS: $500 → 17%SOLES FOR JESUS INC: $500 → 17%FAMILY CARE SERVICES: $500 → 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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
NE
KY
WV
VA
MD
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$599k · 56 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2026, 33 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
70

Total granted

$599k
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+2%

Still filing today

71%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BH
    BROOKES HOUSE INC
    4× · 2022–2026 · $302k · revenue +48%
  • TK
    THE KISKI SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $16k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • AG
    AMERICA GIVES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • PW
    Port Washington High School
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
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
The Chamber of Manitowoc County Inc

The chamber of manitowoc is a member-driven organization that provides resources and services to promote and maintain a strong business environment.

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2
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc

Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.

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3
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
The County Chamber of Commerce

The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.

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6
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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7
Wisconsin Section of the Pga of America Inc

To promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the wisconsin section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…

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8
Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Inc

Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.

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9
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation

Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…

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10
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment
11
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…

Education
12
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Manitowoc County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mercersburg Lions Community Park 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

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 142 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/84
Grantees still filing
44/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROOKES HOUSE INC: $301,606 · HealthBROOKES HOUSE INC+8 more: $35,000 · Health+8 moreTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTEMAKE-A-WISH PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARE: $18,788 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARECOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $16,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAM…Port Washington High School: $10,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $12,260 · OtherPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherCREW COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 · Other+89 more: $156,936 · Other+89 moreUNITED WAY MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $32,899 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…AMERICA GIVES INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GI…MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMADISON CO…THE SEENA MAGOWITZ FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SEENA …+3 more: $6,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreTHE KISKI SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE WOMEN INC: $6,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationManitowoc Professional Police Association: $5,000 · EducationROTARY CLUB OF WAYNESBORO FOUNDATION: $3,800 · EducationHAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,700 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationGREENCASTLE-ANTRIM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,200 · EducationBUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $2,000 · Education+5 more: $3,850 · EducationSOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesStreetLife Communities Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $5,000 · Human ServicesLAKESHORE FOSTER FAMILIES AND FRIENDS INC: $2,000 · Human Services+6 more: $4,800 · Human ServicesWorldwide Friends Foundation: $20,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 · InternationalKIDS BUILDING WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC: $10,180 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $3,335 · Youth Development+1 more: $100 · Youth Development
Health$336,606Other$258,984Philanthropy$78,899Education$54,150Human Services$49,300International$35,000Youth Development$28,615

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 budgetBROOKES HOUSE INC: $301,606 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $32,899 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KISKI SCHOOL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS BUILDING WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $12,260 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC: $10,180 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREW COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHIEFS FOOTBALL: $8,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE WOMEN INC: $6,100 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAUSHARA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStreetLife Communities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE SEENA MAGOWITZ FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetManitowoc Professional Police Association: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAVEN OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF WAYNESBORO FOUNDATION: $3,800 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $3,335 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMANITOWOC COUNTY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,300 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT LAKES DRYHOOTCH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENCASTLE-ANTRIM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNourishMKE Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCCUPATIONAL SERVICES INC: $1,950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROW IT FORWARD INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORT MAIN STREET INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAINSTREET WAYNESBORO INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTEMPO Milwaukee Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% 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.

The Foundation for En…Ruth St John & John D…Green Bay Packers Fou…Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…United Way of Frankli…Chambersburg HospitalPennsylvania Automoti…Nora Roberts Foundati…Baird Foundation IncFirstenergy FoundationJane & Arthur Stangel…
The Foundation for Enhancing CommunitiesPA26.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · United Way of Franklin County · Chambersburg Hospital · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Jane & Arthur Stangel Fund 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 Manitowoc Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Manitowoc Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report 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 142 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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