· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TOGETHER WOMEN RISE | $5,000 |
| GENEVA LAKES CONSERVANCY INC | $5,000 |
| KETTLE MORAINE LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| VIP SERVICES INC | $2,500 |
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO | $1,500 |
| MILWAUKEE PBS | $1,500 |
| HOPE NOW | $1,000 |
| JOE DEMAY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tom & Donna Neshek Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom & Donna Neshek Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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