· Public charity
United Way of Door County Inc
United way of door county mobilizes the community to build strong, equitable, and healthy lives for everyone who lives and works in door county.
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 $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
- $250k+2 grants · $734k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S FIRST DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $427,406 |
| DOOR COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $306,919 |
| NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S CENTER | $51,342 |
| HELP OF DOOR COUNTY | $49,225 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF NEW | $44,184 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY | $42,960 |
| DOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP | $33,079 |
| WE ARE HOPE INC | $31,325 |
| DOOR COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $28,640 |
| LAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN | $26,850 |
| WASHINGTON ISLAND CHILD CARE | $24,800 |
| DOOR COUNTY YMCA | $21,630 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $11,188 |
| DOOR TRAN | $10,740 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,950 |
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 (FY17–24, $607k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +65% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $458k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $250k · revenue +247%
- FSFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +62%
- NDNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +168%
Funded once
SUNSHINE HOUSE INC2× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue 0%- DCDOOR COUNTY DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADRC DIVone grant, 2022 · $8k
- WOWRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +163%
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 receive and administer charitable endowment funds, to award grants to social, educational, scientific, religious and other charitable organizations in door county, wisconsin.
Dcedc is a public/private partnership dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its residents. dcedc has been successful in helping existing businesses create and retain thousands of jobs through a myriad of programs…
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
The door county historical society strives to collect, maintain and share the history and heritage of door county through preservation, education and programming.
Door county summer horizons (dchs) is a youth summer employment program in milwaukee, wisconsin for teens from disadvantaged neighborhoods. dchs overcomes the structural impediments to working in door county by providing transportation,…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated on a not-for-profit basis and exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, as amended,…
To offer financing and other tools to increase the construction, availability, and accessibility of affordable workforce housing specifically in Door County, Wisconsin and generally throughout all of Northeast Wisconsin.
Charitable and educational purposes for the benefit of the door county library. tax deductible gifts to the library are gratefully received in the form of cash, stock, real estate, trusts, life insurance beneficiary designations, and…
The door county humane society is committed to providing a safe haven for lost and homeless pets, and the placement of these pets in a safe, loving and caring environment. we encourage responsible pet ownership for all companion animals…
To raise funds to support children and women causes.
Door cancer, inc. is a community-based voluntary organization dedicated to helping serve door county individuals and families affected by cancer in times of need. door cancer, inc. strives to make life a little easier for those families…
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Door County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Door County Housing Partnership Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 32 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 DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Door County YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DOR-TRAN INC ↗
- Who funds FISC CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ISLAND CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR VOLUNTEER CARE GIVERS OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LTD ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION OF DOOR COUNTY WI INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY BOOKMOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds WRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF POTAWATOMI STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES 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: Door County Community Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Lutsey Family Foundation · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Mmg Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Hislop Family Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Douglass Archibald Jr Char Tuw
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 United Way of Door County 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.
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.