· Private foundation
The Presto 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $453,754 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $875,467 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $421,713 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| L E PHILLIPS CAREER DEV | $102,354 |
| UW-EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIPS | $52,800 |
| DONORS TRUST | $47,500 |
| EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY ECCF | $23,000 |
| BARBERSHOP HARMONEY SOCIE PRESERVE BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMERICA | $15,000 |
| EAU CLAIRE CURLING, INC EAU CLAIRE CURLING CLUB - JUNIOR COMPETITIVE | $15,000 |
| ISLAND CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION, INC. | $14,000 |
| CVTC FOUNDATION, INC. CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL | $11,500 |
| COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATIO COSTCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| DO IT BEST FOUNDATION SALES GROUP CHARITY GOLF | $8,400 |
| STOUT UNIV FOUNDATION | $8,350 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY VETERANS CHIP VALLEY VETERANS TRIBUTE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CV PICKLEBALL CLUB CHIPPEWA VALLEY PICKLEBALL CLUB, INC. | $5,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC | $5,000 |
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 15 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $166k · revenue +30%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +29%- UFUW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ECEAU CLAIRE CITY-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $75k
- LEL E PHILLIPS CAREER DEV CENTERone grant, 2024 · $58k
- NWNORTHERN WISCONSIN STATE FAIR ASSOCone grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue -66%
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.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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.
University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation (UWMF) supports the teaching, research and service missions of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health by promoting the delivery of excellent and innovative patient care…
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
To promote the welfare of and advance the objectives of the university of wisconsin-madison by encouraging the interest, engagement, and financial support of alumni, donors, and friends in the life of the university and with each other.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
The american civil liberties union of wisconsin foundation, inc. (the "foundation") protects and promotes the civil liberties and civil rights of all wisconsin residents by means of litigation, advocacy, public education, research, and…
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ace Hardware Foundation. 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 34 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 164 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 Donors Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN WISCONSIN STATE FAIR ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Chippewa Falls Rotary Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Ace Hardware Foundation ↗
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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Eau Claire Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · L E Phillips Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Pablo Foundation Inc · Jpc Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Baird Foundation Inc
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.