· Private foundation
The Michael & Lois Wilke 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN LEGION MCLEOD POST NO 47 | $15,000 |
| OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| BRIGGS & BARRETT PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOPECHEST | $3,780 |
| RCS TRIUMPH INC | $2,500 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $2,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA | $500 |
| NAUW (NORFOLK AREA UNITED WAY) | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE 360 | $200 |
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 (FY21–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- NFNORFOLK FAMILY YMCA3× · 2022–2025 · $30k
- BBBriggs & Barrett Project5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +59%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TMTeamMates Mentoring Programone grant, 2024 · $100k
- LLLEIGH LEGACY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SCStanton County Veterans Memorial Parkone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Our mission at the Sauk Valley Foodbank is to help alleviate food insecurity in the Sauk Valley area.
To benefit the communitys economic vitality by identifying, developing and funding projects which will grow and sustain the Stanton, Iowa community.
Fight hunger in our community by providing financial, logistic, strategic, and food support to our network of local emergency food pantries.
End hunger together.
The foundation's mission is to seek, receive and administer donations and gifts for the sole benfit of valley county health system. our number one priority is enhancing and sustaining high-quality healthcare in central nebraska.
UNUM International is a Christian nonprofit who seeks to address, educate, coordinate, and provide aid and relief to eradicate chronic malnutrition, physical and spiritual hunger, and illiteracy in Guatemala.
The nebraska cancer specialists (ncs) hope foundation is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the lives of individuals and families in the community and the surrounding areas who are impacted by cancer treatment.
To develop transformational relationships with the people of Uganda. To partner in the development of communities that would promote spiritual, physical and socio-economical transformation.
The food bank of lincoln, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting,…
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Our mission is to help Veterans and First Responders in the United States, their spouses and children, whose unfortunate situations have left them suffering physically and mentally, gain access to special veterans' programs and to educate…
To build a hospital, surgical center and clinics in Uganda to treat children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Nebraska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 360. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 Briggs & Barrett Project ↗
- Who funds Stanton County Veterans Memorial Park ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Global Orphan Hope ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION MCLEOD POST NO 47 ↗
- Who funds Stanton Community Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Children's HopeChest ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE 360 ↗
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: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Michael & Lois Wilke 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.