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The Sartori Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$463k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$622kFood & Nutrition$372kReligion$365kHuman Services$250kEducation$211kArts & Culture$63kCivil Rights$52kPhilanthropy$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $193k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RELEVANT RADIO$93,334
DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS$50,000
THE SALESIANUM TRUST$50,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION$40,000
RIGHT TO LIFE$25,000
ST MONICA SCHOOL$25,000
SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY$25,000
NOURISH FARMS INC$20,000
BOOKWORM GARDENS$10,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$10,000
MESSMER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$10,000
SHARON RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE$10,000
ANCHOR OF HOPE$10,000
GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNT$10,000
LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $3k → 5%COMMUNITY BENEFIT TREE: $500 → 7%FRIENDS OF HONDURAN CHILDREN INC: $6k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $3k → 5%PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION: $10k → 9%PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION: $10k → 9%PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION: $10k → 9%PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION: $10k → 9%PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITIO: $10k → 9%PROJECT ANGEL HUGS: $1k → 9%THE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 9%LOVE INC SHEBOYGAN COUNTY: $5k → 9%LOVE INC SHEBOYGAN COUNTY: $4k → 9%SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY: $25k → 9%GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNT: $10k → 9%GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNT: $10k → 9%GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $10k → 9%SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY: $10k → 9%GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $10k → 9%GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $5k → 9%GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $1k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Sartori Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 92%.

The Sartori Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 40 repeat orgs$419k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
41

Total granted

$1.8M
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+9%

Still filing today

55%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • SC
    SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $185k · revenue +262%
  • NF
    NOURISH FARMS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $154k · revenue +101%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHO
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • RC
    RIGHTWAY CLUB INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce Inc

Promote sheboygan county business development.

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2
Family Service Association of Sheboygan Inc

Family service association of sheboygan, inc. is dedicated to helping individuals and families maintain and achieve financial stability and improve their quality of life. we accomplish this and enhance the community by providing education,…

Human Services
3
Sheffield Care Center Inc

At the sheffield care center our mission, through dedicated teamwork, is to provide all who enter our doors with a clean, comfortable, home-like atmosphere where honesty, dignity, respect and genuine compassion for one another prevails.

Human Services
4
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc

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.

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5
Wisconsin Family Ties Inc

Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…

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6
Bethany Home Inc

Bethany is a faith-based, non-profit senior living community proving a nurturing christian environment and continuum of care that responds to individual needs and choices at all life stages.

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7
Family Connections Inc

To assist childcare providers and parents needing childcare.

Human Services
8
Mothers' Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes Inc

To provide human milk to improve infant health and save lives.

Health
9
Sunshine House Inc

Sunshine resources of door county enriches lives to nurture and inspire the human spirit with care, compassion, partnership and integrity.

Human Services
10
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
11
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
12
Help of Door County Inc

The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan Senior Community Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 92 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
27/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $277,500 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATIONMACC FUND: $160,180 · OtherMACC FUNDTHE SALESIANUM TRUST: $50,000 · OtherST MONICA SCHOOL: $37,500 · Other+57 more: $529,000 · Other+57 moreSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $185,000 · Food & NutritionSHEBOYGAN COUNTY …NOURISH FARMS INC: $153,800 · Food & NutritionNOURISH FARMS INCIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC: $253,001 · ReligionIMMACULATE HE…+1 more: $8,700 · ReligionLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $60,000 · HealthLAKESHORE …DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC: $50,000 · HealthDEMENTIA I…RIGHTWAY CLUB INC: $25,000 · HealthRIGHTWAY C…SHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $20,000 · HealthSHARON S R…NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL B…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $12,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WIS…+4 more: $11,500 · Health+4 morePLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION LTD: $50,000 · Human ServicesGREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesLove INC of Sheboygan County Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF HONDURAN CHILDREN INC: $6,000 · Human Services+5 more: $12,700 · Human ServicesMarquette University: $85,000 · EducationBOOKWORM GARDENS INC: $27,500 · EducationFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $6,750 · Arts & CulturePLYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,054,180Food & Nutrition$338,800Religion$261,701Health$199,000Human Services$158,700Education$123,500Arts & Culture$53,750

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 budgetIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC: $253,001 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $185,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetNOURISH FARMS INC: $153,800 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetMarquette University: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION LTD: $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $46,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOOKWORM GARDENS INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRIGHTWAY CLUB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLove INC of Sheboygan County Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION INC: $8,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $6,750 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HONDURAN CHILDREN INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Nicholas Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franc is: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE'S CONNECTION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRCS EMPOWERS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE BROUGHTON: $4,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPLYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE WISCONSIN FFA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUNGER BALL OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HUGS: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUIT QUI OC ATHLETIC ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHEBOYGAN SENIOR COMMUNITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Benefit Tree Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Children in Need: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds NOURISH FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION LTD ↗
  • Who funds DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds RIGHTWAY CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC ↗

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.

Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation IncWI51.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Merkel Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities 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 Sartori Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sartori Family 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 92 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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