· Private foundation
Tom & Donna Neshek Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC | $11,150 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| GENEVA LAKES CONSERVANCY INC | $5,000 |
| KETTLE MORAINE LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| TOGETHER WOMEN RISE | $5,000 |
| VIP SERVICES INC | $2,500 |
| MILWAUKEE PBS | $1,500 |
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO | $1,500 |
| HOPE NOW | $1,000 |
| JOE DEMAY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +45% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +177%- TWTOGETHER WOMEN RISE6× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +32%
- VSVIP SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +33%
Funded once
AGAPE HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -9%- EAElkhorn Area School Districtone grant, 2021 · $2k
- WCWALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +137%
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.
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
Gathering waters (wisconsin's alliance for land trusts) strengthens land trusts to protect wisconsin's special places and grow healthy, vibrant communities. the stronger the alliance between gathering waters' staff and board members, land…
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
Goodwill industries is a nonprofit provider of employment and other critical community based services for people who have a disability, people who lack education or job experience, households facing economic challenges, and others in need.
Provide home ownership opportunities to low-income households and make repairs to existing homes for very low-income homeowners.
Provide free food to needy families
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The lake area free clinic is the medical and dental home to low-income residents of waukesha county. the mission is to provide high-quality comprehensive health care to those in need.
Build/remodel homes sold at favorable terms to qualified low-income individuals. also, to operate two retail restore outlets to sell donated building materials.
Since its establishment in 1967, the association has acquired, preserved and maintained over 930 acres of local native landscapes including prairies, savannas, ravines, woodlands and wetlands for the benefit and enjoyment of the entire…
To empower people to protect and restore water.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Together Women Rise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WOMEN RISE ↗
- Who funds VIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS 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: Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc · Kunes Family Foundation · United Way of Walworth County · Ulla & Bertil Brunk Foundation Inc · Sbk Stearns Family Foundation · Keefe Foundation Inc · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Pentair Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Tom & Donna Neshek Family 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.
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