· Private foundation
US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k82 grants · $299k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k36 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTORY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $800,000 |
| KENYA WORKS INC | $152,000 |
| THE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC | $150,000 |
| THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC | $125,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC | $121,500 |
| PILLARS INC | $110,000 |
| CORPSGIVING FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION | $103,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WISCONSIN INC | $100,000 |
| OSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| US 2 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUN | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY | $100,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $100,000 |
| COTS | $100,000 |
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 US giving — 84% of grant dollars ($16M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($3.1M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 16% of all-years giving ($3.1M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
154 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 106 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC6× · 2019–2024 · $580k · revenue +78%- HHHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $514k · revenue +38%
- PIPILLARS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $490k · revenue +460%
Funded once
United States Association for UNHCRone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -62%- STSAVE THE CHILDREN EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2022 · $500k
- CFCORPSGIVING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $208k
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.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Paul Van Handel Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
277 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. 277 of the 413 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds PILLARS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds KENYA WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds COTS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds A Better Chicago ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds REACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds US 2 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLINIC AND CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds JAKE'S DIAPERS INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE PROMOTIONS 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: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc
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 US Ventureschmidt 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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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