· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE PARENTING PLACE | $2,000 |
| CARING CLOSET INC | $2,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $2,000 |
| CITY OF TOMAH POLICE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| VETERANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC | $1,838 |
| TREASURED CHESTS INCORPORATED | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +23% since the first grant, against -37% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MCMONROE COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITYone grant, 2022 · $3k
- SPST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 51 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas B Earle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas B Earle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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