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Wangerin Family Foundation Inc

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.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$500
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN$20,000
FRIENDS OF LONG LAKE$2,000
NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER$2,000
HERITAGE HILL FOUNDATION$2,000
PBS OF WISCONSIN FRIENDS$2,000
WILLOW TREE CORNERSTONE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$2,000
RIBBON OF HOPE FOUNDATION$2,000
HANDS ON DECK$2,000
ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY INC$2,000
BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$2,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN$2,000
GREEN BAY SAIL & PADDLE$2,000
EINSTEIN PROJECT$2,000
FOSTER THE VILLAGE$1,000
PAINE ART CENTER AND GARDENS$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) 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.

area typical 8%FOSTER THE VILLAGE: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Pabst Mansion Inc

Pabst mansion, inc. preserves, shares, and interprets an iconic milwaukee home that serves as a testament to the gilded age. through immersive tours, educational opportunities, and programming, pabst mansion, inc. brings visitors back in…

Arts & Culture
2
The Green Bay and Depere Antiquarian Society Inc

The aim and purpose of this organization is to hold, purchase, preserve and acquire antiquities and real estate to perpetuate the history of the locality surrounding green bay and the state of wisconsin.

Arts & Culture
3
House of Hope Green Bay Inc

House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…

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4
Gabriel's Villa Inc

Gabriel's villa is part of a family of healthcare and residential service organizations committed to providing quality care and life enriching opportunities to the aging and those in need in a caring, christian environment.

Human Services
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Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc

The mission of the greater green bay community foundation, inc. is to inspire and encourage charitable giving in northeast wisconsin by connecting caring people with solutions that strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
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New Community Shelter Foundation Inc

New community shelter foundation, inc. is organized and operated for charitable, educational, religious, and scientific purposes exclusively for the benefit and support of the greater green bay community foundation, inc.

Housing & Shelter
7
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.

Arts & Culture
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Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…

Arts & Culture
9
Olbrich Botanical Society Inc

Olbrich botanical gardens enriches lives and inspires people to live in harmony with the natural world. olbrich botanical gardens is dedicated to the creation, conservation, and interpretation of gardens and plant collections hardy to the…

Environment
10
Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity

Habitat brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. the organization seeks out qualified applicants starting with a yearly application process for individuals and families to apply. the applicant must meet 3 basic…

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11
Mineral Point Historical Society Inc

Maintenance and operation of a 19th century home as a local museum, located in mineral point, wi

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12
Downtown Green Bay Inc

Dgbi works to revitalize the social and economic climate of downtown green bay.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heritage Hill Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

17 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. 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INCBAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentBAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC — $2,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WI…PBS OF WISCONSIN FRIENDS — $2,000 · OtherPBS OF WISCONSIN FRIENDSWILLOW TREE CORNERSTONE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $2,000 · OtherWILLOW TREE CORNERSTONE CHILD ADVOCACY C…FRIENDS OF LONG LAKE INC — $2,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF LONG LAKE INCANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY INC — $2,000 · OtherANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY INCDE PERE BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE — $1,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FOX RIVER TRAIL — $1,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY — $1,000 · OtherGREEN BAY PARKS DEPARTMENT - BAY BEACH AMUSEMENT PARK — $1,000 · OtherCASA ALBA MELANIE HISPANIC COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $1,000 · OtherRIBBON OF HOPE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $2,000 · OtherRIBBON OF HOPE FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDFoster the Village Inc — $1,000 · OtherCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC — $1,000 · OtherPAUL'S PANTRY INC — $1,000 · OtherGREEN BAY SAIL & PADDLE INC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsHERITAGE HILL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC — $500 · Arts & CultureEINSTEIN PROJECT INC — $2,000 · EducationHANDS ON DECK INCORPORATED — $2,000 · Youth Development
Environment$22,000Other$20,000Recreation & Sports$4,000Housing & Shelter$3,000Arts & Culture$2,500Education$2,000Youth Development$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN BAY SAIL & PADDLE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEINSTEIN PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS ON DECK INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRIBBON OF HOPE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE HILL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFoster the Village Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL'S PANTRY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA ALBA MELANIE HISPANIC COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Green Bay Com…Green Bay Packers Fou…Wisconsin Public Serv…Joseph & Sarah Van Dr…George Kress Foundati…Cornerstone Foundatio…John and Engrid Meng …Little Rapids Corpora…Community Foundation …Weyers Family Foundat…K C Stock Foundation …Bernard E and Alyce G…
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation IncWI35.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Joseph & Sarah Van Drisse Charitable Trust · George Kress Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Bernard E and Alyce G Dahlin 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 Wangerin Family Foundation 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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