· Private foundation
The Sartori Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RELEVANT RADIO | $93,334 |
| DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS | $50,000 |
| THE SALESIANUM TRUST | $50,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY | $25,000 |
| ST MONICA SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NOURISH FARMS INC | $20,000 |
| MESSMER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| BOOKWORM GARDENS | $10,000 |
| LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE | $10,000 |
| ANCHOR OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| SHARON RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNT | $10,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $10,000 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Sartori Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
- SCSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC5× · 2017–2023 · $185k · revenue +262%
- NFNOURISH FARMS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $154k · revenue +101%
- MUMarquette University4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH AND SCHOone grant, 2024 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
- RCRIGHTWAY CLUB INCone grant, 2020 · $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.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
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,…
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.
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.
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…
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.
To assist childcare providers and parents needing childcare.
To provide human milk to improve infant health and save lives.
Sunshine resources of door county enriches lives to nurture and inspire the human spirit with care, compassion, partnership and integrity.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan Senior Community Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 92 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 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 DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION LTD ↗
- 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 NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Sartori Family Foundation Inc 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.