· Public charity
Whitetails Unlimited Inc
Since our beginning in 1982, whitetails unlimited has remained true to its mission and made tremendous strides in the field of conservation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 133 grants below total $1,560,205 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,247,374 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,687,169 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $537k
- $10k–50k57 grants · $958k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION | $64,801 |
| DTD OUTDOORS | $49,477 |
| CHAMPAIGN COUNTY OUTDOOR HERITAGE CHAPTER INC | $35,913 |
| FARMERS AND HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY | $35,074 |
| MONROE CITY FRIENDS OF THE OUTDOORS | $32,193 |
| ODNR - DIVISION OF WILDLIFE | $25,909 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY WI CHAPTER | $25,581 |
| CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PRAIRIE CREEK SPORTS CLUB | $24,394 |
| QUEST MINISTRIES | $23,676 |
| WALLEYES OF IOSCO COUNTY | $22,102 |
| TWIN RIVERS PHEASANTS FOREVER | $22,000 |
| THIS IS MY QUEST INC | $21,863 |
| BRIAR RIDGE CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES | $21,543 |
| BASS AND BUCKS INC | $21,300 |
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 (FY24–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% 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 +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
138 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 40 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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
- CFCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $644k · revenue +42%
- WUWHITETAILS UNLIMITED WASHINGTON COU CHAPTER 93627× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +145% · 87% of their budget
- FHFARMERS & HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- ACADAMS COUNTY OUTDOORSMEN INCone grant, 2024 · $40k
- WMWHITETAIL MAFIA PASSION PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $37k
- ARASWELL RESOURCESone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
We are a non-profit that provides training for all hunting and fishing equipment in ohio to youths 8 to 16.
Non profit organization for education
Dedicated to conservation preservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat
To provide activities which focus on hunting and fishing safety issues for all ages. preserve and protect wildlife.
Social and Recreational Shooting Sports Shotgun, Rifle, Archery
Romoting safety and enjoyment of the outdoors
Sportsmen's club promoting shooting sports, the love of the outdoors and conservation but mostly safety and knowledge of of the shooting sports.
To conserve wildlife and educate
To encourage conservation and restoration of waters, wildlife, forest and field. to promote, at all times, the safe handling and proper use of archery and firearms.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Noquebay Sportmans Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center. 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 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 339 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 CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DTD OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds WHITETAILS UNLIMITED WASHINGTON COU CHAPTER 9362 ↗
- Who funds FARMERS & HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARCHERY IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITETAILS UNLIMITED WISCONSIN RIVER VALLEY CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds BRIAR RIDGE CHILDRENS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG SPORTSMENS CLUB ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWARD-SUAMICO ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA EXTENSION 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITETAILS UNLIMITED INC MARSHFIELD ↗
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: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund · Cabelas Outdoor Fund · NRA Foundation Inc · Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation · National Wild Turkey Federation Inc · Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Inc · Midway USA Foundation Inc · American Bar Association · Investor Protection Trust · National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation
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 Whitetails Unlimited 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.
- Wounded Warriors in Action Foundation 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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