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The Peter J Seippel Foundation Inc

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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$295kHealth$189kArts & Culture$63kEducation$46kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$15kCommunity Improvement$14kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,500
SWAN CITY ICE SKATERS$2,500
BEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$750
Individual grant recipient$700
BEAVER DAM ROTARY LIGHTS$500
JOHN MOSER CHILDREN'S RADIOTHON$500
SPECIAL TOUCH MINISTRY INC$250
Individual grant recipient$250
DONATIONS$153
Individual grant recipient$150
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 (FY17–24, $175k) 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%PAVE: $59k → 9%YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY: $45k → 9%YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY: $45k → 9%PAVE: $18k → 9%PAVE: $3k → 9%PAVE: $3k → 9%PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT INC: $750 → 9%CLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $500 → 9%PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT INC: $500 → 9%BEAVERLAND MUST-SKIS: $200 → 9%BEAVERLAND MUST-SKIS: $100 → 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

IL
WI
NY
CA
TN
GA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$581k · 51 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
54

Total granted

$581k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+1%

Still filing today

37%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • YO
    YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $91k · revenue +184%
  • PA
    PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN
    6× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +72%
  • HF
    HEROES FOR CHILDREN
    7× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ARITHRITIS
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Foundation Inc

We enrich lives to create healthy communities through meaningful relationships built on gratitude and philanthropy.

Health
2
Beaver Dam Winter Sports Club Inc

To provide hockey and skating programs to our membership in a private club setting.

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3
Arc of Wabash County Inc

The mission of arc of wabash county, inc. is to challenge, empower, and support individuals with disabilities to reach their highest level of independence. arc of wabash is dedicated to: 1) preserve, protect, and promote the dignity of…

Human Services
4
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment
5
American Academy of Dermatology Association Inc

To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…

Health
6
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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7
Credit Union Association of the Dakotas

The association works to promote member credit unions as being safe and sound institutions for insured deposits, responsible lending, and the best place for consumers to receive financial services.

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8
Aging and Disability Resource Center of Brown County Inc

The adrc of brown county supports older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers through education, advocacy, and resources. we connect people to answers, in our center, by phone, or at home, so everyone can live with diginity and…

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9
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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10
Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents and survivors.

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11
United States Anti-Doping Agency

Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes

Recreation & Sports
12
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Inc; the most unlike its peers is Best Dam Fest Inc. 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

33 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. 33 of the 110 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEROES FOR CHILDREN: $78,500 · OtherHEROES FOR CHILDRENARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $64,500 · OtherARTHRITIS FOUNDATIONMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WI: $40,073 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WIBEAVER DAM AREA ARTS ASSOCIATION: $39,000 · OtherBEAVER DAM AREA ARTS ASSOCIATIONYMCA: $25,000 · OtherYMCASWAN CITY ICE SKATERS: $22,750 · OtherSWAN CITY ICE SKATERS+88 more: $137,520 · Other+88 moreYMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INC: $90,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INCPEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN: $84,100 · Human ServicesPEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENV…+2 more: $800 · Human ServicesCHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC: $37,200 · ReligionWAYLAND ACADEMY: $26,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $12,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthBEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS INC: $2,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $772 · Health+1 more: $600 · HealthBEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $11,975 · Arts & CultureTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$407,343Human Services$175,400Religion$37,200Education$26,500Health$22,872Arts & Culture$11,975Community Improvement$6,000

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 budgetYMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INC: $90,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN: $84,100 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $78,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC: $37,200 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetWAYLAND ACADEMY: $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $11,975 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBEAVER DAM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $7,637 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDodge County Humane Society Inc: $5,750 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBEAVER DAM LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 146: $3,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER OF DODGE COUNTY INC: $2,600 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEAVER DAM HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $2,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBest Dam Fest Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSPECIAL TOUCH MINISTRY INC: $1,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN VALLEY ENTERPRISES INC OF BEAVER DAM: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAVER DAM SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $772 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEAVERLAND MUST-SKIS INC: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARSH HAVEN NATURE CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF DODGE COUNTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN ↗
  • Who funds HEROES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER DAM AREA COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER DAM AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
  • Who funds Dodge County Humane Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER DAM LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 146 ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER OF DODGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER DAM HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation IncWI34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc · The Jack and Arlene Schumann Foundation Inc · Nelson & Vera Hicks Charitable Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Foundation Inc · United Way of Dodge County Inc · Keller Family Charitable Trust · Cramer Family Foundation · Steve and Christa Slinger Family Gift Fund Inc · Seneca Foods Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation 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 Peter J Seippel Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peter J Seippel Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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, 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 110 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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