· Private foundation
Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of COUSINS SUBS MAKE IT BETTER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $15,152 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS - DAH | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY - DAH | $7,500 |
| MAKING A MARK FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - LEGACY | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST WI TECHNICAL COLLEGE - LEGACY | $5,000 |
| UW MILWAUKEE - LEGACY | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE - LEGACY | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| UW MADISON - DAH | $3,000 |
| EXPLORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SUN PRAIRIE | $3,000 |
| WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK | $3,000 |
| WISCONSIBS INC | $3,000 |
| THE ARC FOND DU LAC | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR DEAF AND BLIND PERSONS | $3,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +70%
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +5%
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING2× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +30%
Funded once
Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +94%- MDMILWAUKEE DANCING GRANNIES INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- WSWAUKESHA SOUTH BAND BOOSTERSone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creekside Middle School Pto. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 169 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 HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Fostering Community Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ebenezer Stone Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIEND 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Ros Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Harri Hoffmann Family 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 Cousins Subs Make It Better 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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