· Private foundation
Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THEODORE W BATTERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $591k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIVINE REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $1,002,500 |
| WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS FOUNDATION INC | $533,333 |
| BADGERLAND AFTERSCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM (BASE) | $510,000 |
| CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER | $205,000 |
| ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL JANESVILLE | $150,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $135,000 |
| WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES | $116,666 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $109,000 |
| GLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA | $105,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING | $100,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $90,000 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN | $82,633 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD (LCMS) | $72,500 |
| JOURNEYS LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $63,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 15% of Theodore W Batterman 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, 83% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 74% — 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 +30% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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
- WYWISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +152% · 84% of their budget
- BABADGERLAND AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +36%
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- S(SHOREHAVEN (LUTHERAN HOMES OF OCONOMOWOC INC)one grant, 2022 · $310k
- HAHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $261k · revenue +10%
- CLCAMP LUTHER INCone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
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.
Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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.
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.
Wisconsin foundation united church of christ, inc. is a catalyst for positive change in the life of the united church of christ in wisconsin; promotes a culture of generosity; and connects people across the ucc in working for a more just…
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jc Emergency Communications. 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 40 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 181 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 WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BADGERLAND AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds FORT ATKINSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Youth Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
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 Theodore W Batterman 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc 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.