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Warden Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Housing & Shelter$262kHealth$203kAnimals$117kHuman Services$77kReligion$38kYouth Development$30kCommunity Improvement$24kEducation$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEAVENS GAIT RANCH INC$50,000
OPERATION FINALLY HOME$25,000
MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION$25,000
WISCONSIN LAW ENFORC CANINE HANDL A$10,000
HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY$10,000
ADULT TEEN CHALLENGE$10,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
HOPE RIDES INC$5,000
MAYER LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
KATHYS HOUSE$5,000
MORNING GLORY MINISTRIES INC$5,000
PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $25k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$712k · 29 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
20

Total granted

$712k
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+30%

Still filing today

41%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesReligionPublic BenefitOther

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

  • HG
    Heavens Gait Ranch Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +107%
  • HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +100%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $16k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • Veterans Outreach of Wisconsingraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +473%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • WA
    WEST ALLIS COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT FU
    one grant, 2022 · $16k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Uso Wisconsin Inc

To support members of the military and their families

2
Veterans Healing Farm

Veterans Healing Farm enhances the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of our nations Veterans and their families.

Public Benefit
3
Americas Homeless Veterans

Our Goal is to eradicate homelessness for our Veterans using our resources to support the transition from the street to permanent housing with the primary mission of providing the support to obtain and sustain housing, food and shelter for…

4
Lifting Hands International

We provide aid to refugees, both at home and abroad. Simply humanitarian.

International
5
Homebound Meals Inc

The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.

6
Operation Renewed Hope Foundation

Provide quality housing and supportive services to our nation's veterans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
7
Paralyzed Veterans of America - Wisconsin Chapter

Paralyzed Veterans of America - Wisconsin Chapter (PVA-WI) works to improve the quality of life for veterans, in our state, living with spinal cord injury or disease, including those with MS and ALS. Our work is carried out through a…

8
Final Salute Inc

Provide homeless women veterans and their children with safe and suitable housing

Housing & Shelter
9
Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin Inc

Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.

Housing & Shelter
10
Veterans Guest House Inc

Veterans Guest House promotes peace and wellness for the veteran community.

Unclassified
11
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
12
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More

See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Rides. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 51 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)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPERATION FINALLY HOME — $103,000 · OtherOPERATION FINALLY HOMEMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION — $51,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONLUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL — $22,000 · OtherLUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLWISCONSIN LAW ENFORC CANINE HANDL A — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherWEST ALLIS COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT FU — $16,000 · OtherADULT TEEN CHALLENGE — $15,000 · Other+31 more — $135,250 · Other+31 moreKathy's House Inc — $165,000 · HealthKathy's House IncFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC — $16,000 · HealthFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN IN…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthHeavens Gait Ranch Inc — $90,000 · Recreation & SportsHeavens Gait …HOPE RIDES — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHOPE RIDESOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $65,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION FIN…HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterHEBRON HOUSE …Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTREET ANGELS INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesPURE JOY MISSIONS — $25,000 · ReligionINSIGHT FOR LIVING — $1,000 · ReligionPets for Vets Inc — $5,500 · Public BenefitSTARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC — $3,000 · Public Benefit
Other$382,250Health$182,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Human Services$26,000Religion$26,000Public Benefit$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKathy's House Inc — $165,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetHeavens Gait Ranch Inc — $90,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES — $35,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVeterans Outreach of Wisconsin — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPURE JOY MISSIONS — $25,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE RIDES — $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPets for Vets Inc — $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLE OF FRANKLIN TRUST INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSIGHT FOR LIVING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALS ASSOCIATION INC WISCONSIN CHAPTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET ANGELS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Kathy's House Inc
  • Who funds Heavens Gait Ranch Inc
  • Who funds OPERATION FINALLY HOME
  • Who funds HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES
  • Who funds Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin
  • Who funds PURE JOY MISSIONS
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds HOPE RIDES
  • Who funds Pets for Vets Inc
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC
  • Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries 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.

Baird Foundation IncWI17.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Warden 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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