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The Zieve 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$1.9MEducation$221kArts & Culture$126kHealth$124kFood & Nutrition$48kYouth Development$30kEnvironment$24kHuman Services$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,891,910
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FUND-NORMAN FAMILY FUND$1,891,910
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 5% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FUND-NORMAN FAMILY FUND: $1.9M → 12%NOURISH: $10k → 9%LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $30k → 17%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%NOURISH: $5k → 9%LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $20k → 17%LAKELAND UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $20k → 17%NOURISH: $5k → 9%LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $20k → 17%LAKELAND UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $15k → 17%NOURISH: $5k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $10k → 17%LAKELAND UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $5k → 17%LAKELAND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%LAKELAND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $29k → 9%SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $20k → 9%SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 9%BOOKWORM GARDENS: $15k → 9%BOOKWORM GARDENS: $15k → 9%BOOKWORM GARDENS: $13k → 9%BOOKWORM GARDENS: $10k → 9%SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 9%SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 9%JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - SHEBOYGAN FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - SHEBOYGAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - SHEBOYGAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - SHEBOYGAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%STEFANIE H WEILL CENTER: $5k → 9%BOOKWORM GARDENS: $5k → 9%JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER: $5k → 9%BOOKWORM GARDENS: $5k → 9%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $5k → 9%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $5k → 9%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $5k → 9%ELKHART LAKE LIBRARY: $6k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY: $9k → 9%SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 76% of The Zieve Foundation’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, 24% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Zieve Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$589k · 20 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$589k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+8%

Still filing today

70%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +14%
  • BG
    BOOKWORM GARDENS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +87%
  • LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sheboygan County Chamber of Commerce Inc

Promote sheboygan county business development.

2
Lakewood Theatre Company

To inspire and nurture a love of theatre and the arts with the following mission: the maintenance of a permanent multi-arts and theatre facility. the sponsorship and coordination of education and cultural programming in visual arts,…

Arts & Culture
3
Lake Country Academy Inc

The mission of lake country academy is to be a recognized leader in education through direct instruction and core knowledge within an environment that emphasizes core values.

Education
4
Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation

The mission of the sheboygan county economic development corporation (scedc), a countywide private/public partnership, is to lead economic development efforts to improve the economic well-being and long-term prosperity of the businesses,…

5
Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.

Environment
6
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
7
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
8
Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc

Mission statement: to gather, grow, and give endowed charitable financial resources to build stronger, more vibrant communities now and into the future.value statement:we are committed to managing our clients' philanthropic endowments in…

Philanthropy
9
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
10
Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment
11
Sheboygan Theatre Company

To create and present community theatre produced by a diverse group of actors and volunteers to be performed and enjoyed by the entire sheboygan community.

12
Lake Michigan Bird Observatory

Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan Public Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FUND-NORMAN FAMILY FUND — $1,891,910 · OtherRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FUND-NORMAN FAMILY FUND+21 more — $158,609 · Other+21 moreBOOKWORM GARDENS INC — $65,500 · EducationLAKELAND UNIVERSITY — $59,000 · EducationLAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Education+1 more — $1,500 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $120,000 · Health+1 more — $1,500 · HealthSHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $97,600 · Arts & CultureJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $16,500 · Food & NutritionGLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $8,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,000 · International
Other$2,050,519Education$181,000Health$121,500Arts & Culture$118,600Food & Nutrition$16,500Environment$10,000Animals$8,500International$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $120,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $97,600 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetBOOKWORM GARDENS INC — $65,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetLAKELAND UNIVERSITY — $59,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $27,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL PARK TRUST OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY — $12,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKESIDE INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES — $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC
  • Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC
  • Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL PARK TRUST OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY
  • Who funds GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKESIDE INC
  • Who funds MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THEATER FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
  • Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC
  • Who funds DARE TO DREAM THEATRE INC
  • Who funds SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES

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.

Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation IncWI34.8× affinity14 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 · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Hugh & Ruth V Ross Charitable Fund Inc · Randall J & Judith F Hake Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Catharine B Stayer Family Foundation Inc · Grover Family 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Zieve 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    8report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Zieve Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Zieve Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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