· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE FUND-NORMAN FAMILY FUND | $1,891,910 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 5% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 76% of The Zieve Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 24% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 20%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +7%
- BGBOOKWORM GARDENS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +87%
LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -23%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
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.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
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,…
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.
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,…
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.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO DREAM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zieve Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zieve Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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