· Private foundation
Thomas B Earle 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $10,000 |
| TOMAH AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,512 |
| HANDISHOP INDUSTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC | $4,000 |
| BLUFF AND RIDGE EQUINE ASSISTED | $3,560 |
| GOODWILL OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $3,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF THE 7 RIVERS | $3,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE | $2,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC | $2,500 |
| CARING CLOSET INC | $2,000 |
| THE PARENTING PLACE | $2,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $2,000 |
| CITY OF TOMAH POLICE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| VETERANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC | $1,838 |
| CITY OF TOMAH KUPPER RATSCH SENIOR CTR | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- HIHANDISHOP INDUSTRIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +31%
- VAVETERANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +23%
- ACAREA COMMUNITY THEATER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- TATOMAH AREA MONTESSORI SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SPST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $3k
- MCMONROE COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITYone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Provide broadbased needs for homeless including temporary shelter, medical services, work clothing, transportation assistance; served over 1,000 individuals
The organization serves homeless families with dependent children through an emergency and transitional residential program. the center offers physical, emotional, social and educational services to assist families in the transition to…
Provides emergency shelter to
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need
Tolton Senior Housing Corporation provides housing and services for the elderly, to meet their physical, social, and psycho-social needs.
Our aim is to try each day to build a new society in the shell of the old as we practice the various works of mercy, and labor with whatever resources, physical as well as spiritual, that we have been given at the time.
Our mission is to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
Temporarily house and locate permanent homes for stray and abandoned pets.
Provide temporary, secure housing to those in need
THA, Inc develops, manages and improves affordable housing.
Provide Community Services to the Trapper Creek Community
To provide shelter on a temporary basis for homeless men, women and children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Parenting Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of the Great Rivers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 51 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 HANDISHOP INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TOMAH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY SHELTERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds AREA COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN SQUIRREL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Caring Closet 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 Andres Charitable Trust · Jw Etzelmueller Trust Fund · The Covia Foundation · Bernadette M Otto Charitable Foundation · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Stephen D and Betty J Gebhardt Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Thomas B Earle 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.
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.