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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
133
Grants FY2025still arriving
27
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$3.2MAnimals$1.1MHealth$703kEnvironment$575kYouth Development$485kFood & Nutrition$474kHuman Services$252kEducation$247kOther$0
02FY2025 · 133 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 133 grants below total $1,560,205, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,247,374 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,687,169 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k75 grants · $537k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $958k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$9,135
Median grant
27
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WAYMAKER OFF-ROAD WHEELCHAIRS INC: $8k → 21%OUTDOOR ABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 16%CJ3 FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%CJ3 FOUNDATION: $9k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MT
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MI
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MA
OR
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IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
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TN
SC
DC
LA
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AL
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 138 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

138
157

Total granted

$6.5M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+10%

Still filing today

35%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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
Recreation & SportsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $644k · revenue +42%
  • WU
    WHITETAILS UNLIMITED WASHINGTON COU CHAPTER 9362
    7× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +145% · 87% of their budget
  • FH
    FARMERS & HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • AC
    ADAMS COUNTY OUTDOORSMEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • WM
    WHITETAIL MAFIA PASSION PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $37k
  • AR
    ASWELL RESOURCES
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oakland Park Conservation Club Inc

We are a non-profit that provides training for all hunting and fishing equipment in ohio to youths 8 to 16.

Recreation & Sports
2
4-H Rifle

Non profit organization for education

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3
Cormorant Lakes Sportsmen's Club

Dedicated to conservation preservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat

Environment
4
Osceola County Sportsmans Club

To provide activities which focus on hunting and fishing safety issues for all ages. preserve and protect wildlife.

—
5
Rocky Mountain Veterans' Hunts & Excursions Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Dekalb County Youth Shooting Sports
Recreation & Sports
7
League of Ohio Sportsmen Foundation
Recreation & Sports
8
Shaner Sportsmens Club Inc

Social and Recreational Shooting Sports Shotgun, Rifle, Archery

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9
Deer River Sportsmans Club Inc

Romoting safety and enjoyment of the outdoors

Recreation & Sports
10
Pine City Sportsmans Club Inc

Sportsmen's club promoting shooting sports, the love of the outdoors and conservation but mostly safety and knowledge of of the shooting sports.

Recreation & Sports
11
Foothills Outdoorsman Association

To conserve wildlife and educate

Education
12
Roundup Sportmen's Association Inc

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Noquebay Sportmans Club Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/115
Grantees still filing
67/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+166 more: $5,526,581 · Other+166 moreCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION: $644,137 · HealthCATCH-A-DR…FREDERICKSBURG SPORTSMENS CLUB: $65,410 · HealthFREDERICKS…NATIONAL ARCHERY IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMS INC: $79,708 · Recreation & SportsHARLAN TRAP TEAM: $40,600 · Recreation & SportsINDIANA HUNTER EDUCATION ASSN INC: $39,306 · Recreation & SportsBIG 9 SPORTSMAN CLUB OF CONCORD: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFIVE1 ATHLETICS INCORPORATED: $19,900 · Recreation & SportsCASS CITY GUN CLUB: $14,653 · Recreation & SportsMarceline Tiger Youth Wrestling Club: $12,911 · Recreation & SportsGrindstone Port Hope Sportsmans Clu: $12,225 · Recreation & SportsMICHIANA HANDICAP HUNT FOR YOUTH INC: $11,228 · Recreation & SportsCHALLENGE THE OUTDOORS INC: $10,691 · Recreation & SportsCLARION COUNTY SPORTSMEN FOR YOUTH INC: $9,678 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $9,123 · Recreation & SportsWHITETAILS UNLIMITED INC MARSHFIELD: $55,345 · EnvironmentWhitetails Unlimited Inc Eau Claire: $49,759 · EnvironmentRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: $49,450 · EnvironmentTHE CHESANING AREA CONSERVATION CLUB: $41,443 · EnvironmentBUCKEYE OUTDOOR YOUTH EDUCATION & SHOOTING CENTER INC: $35,499 · EnvironmentCENTRAL WISCONSIN WHITETAILS UNLIMITED INC: $16,515 · EnvironmentCHIPPEWA SNOW CHASERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $50,792 · Public BenefitLEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC: $40,678 · Public BenefitOperation Cherrybend: $36,500 · Public BenefitOHIO VETERANS OUTDOORS INC: $25,347 · Public BenefitQUEST MINISTRIES: $23,676 · Public BenefitWOUNDED WARRIORS IN ACTION FOUNDATION INC: $21,478 · Public BenefitDISABLED VETERANS OUTDOORS: $11,019 · Public BenefitDTD OUTDOORS: $174,899 · AnimalsOak Harbor Conservation Wildlife Restoration: $32,637 · AnimalsBRIAR RIDGE CHILDRENS MINISTRIES: $67,315 · Youth DevelopmentVALLEY YOUTH HUNTER EDUCATION CHALLENGE INC: $41,691 · Youth DevelopmentSMETHPORT REGIONAL YOUTH TRAP TEAM: $17,784 · Youth DevelopmentPASS IT ON - OUTDOOR MENTORS INC: $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP TUSCAZOAR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,526,581Health$709,547Recreation & Sports$280,023Environment$248,011Public Benefit$209,490Animals$207,536Youth Development$153,290

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION: $644,137 over 8y, 10% of budgetDTD OUTDOORS: $174,899 over 5y, 79% of budgetWHITETAILS UNLIMITED WASHINGTON COU CHAPTER 9362: $133,815 over 7y, 87% of budgetFARMERS & HUNTERS FEEDING THE HUNGRY INC: $108,239 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $105,488 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DEER ALLIANCE INC: $103,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL ARCHERY IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMS INC: $79,708 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWHITETAILS UNLIMITED WISCONSIN RIVER VALLEY CHAPTER: $71,721 over 7y, 12% of budgetBRIAR RIDGE CHILDRENS MINISTRIES: $67,315 over 4y, 64% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG SPORTSMENS CLUB: $65,410 over 9y, 21% of budgetOPTIMIST CLUB OF HOWARD-SUAMICO: $64,226 over 8y, 50% of budgetGEORGIA EXTENSION 4-H FOUNDATION: $59,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetWHITETAILS UNLIMITED INC MARSHFIELD: $55,345 over 5y, 73% of budgetCHIPPEWA SNOW CHASERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $50,792 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetWhitetails Unlimited Inc Eau Claire: $49,759 over 5y, 23% of budgetRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: $49,450 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HUNTER EDUCATION CHALLENGE INC: $41,691 over 4y, 45% of budgetNEW HOPE EAGLE FIRE CO: $41,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHESANING AREA CONSERVATION CLUB: $41,443 over 4y, 50% of budgetPROTECT THE HARVEST: $41,204 over 3y, 24% of budgetLEEK HUNTING AND MOUNTAIN PRESERVE INC: $40,678 over 4y, 11% of budgetHARLAN TRAP TEAM: $40,600 over 5y, 16% of budgetINDIANA HUNTER EDUCATION ASSN INC: $39,306 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetOperation Cherrybend: $36,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetBUCKEYE OUTDOOR YOUTH EDUCATION & SHOOTING CENTER INC: $35,499 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetWABASH CONSERVATION CLUB INCORPORATED: $35,372 over 3y, 27% of budgetDENMARK FFA ALUMNI INC: $34,915 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetOak Harbor Conservation Wildlife Restoration: $32,637 over 3y, 49% of budgetWHITETAILS UNLIMITED INC WAUPACA CH: $32,169 over 5y, 19% of budgetKnights of Columbus Council 856: $31,099 over 3y, 57% of budgetTHIS IS MY QUEST INC: $29,895 over 2y, 13% of budgetPORT HURON ELKS LODGE 343: $29,285 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetQUEST MINISTRIES: $23,676 over 1y, 19% of budgetWHITETAILS UNLIMTED INC MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CHAPTER: $22,372 over 3y, 70% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS IN ACTION FOUNDATION INC: $21,478 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP TANGLEWOOD INC: $20,669 over 2y, 25% of budgetWASHINGTON CROSSING COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $20,523 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetST CLAIR LITTLE LEAGUE: $20,241 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBIG 9 SPORTSMAN CLUB OF CONCORD: $20,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetFIVE1 ATHLETICS INCORPORATED: $19,900 over 3y, 17% of budgetCJ3 FOUNDATION: $18,796 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBUCK TRAIL ARCHERS INC: $18,475 over 3y, 22% of budgetSMETHPORT REGIONAL YOUTH TRAP TEAM: $17,784 over 2y, 28% of budgetMAHONING COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $17,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN WHITETAILS UNLIMITED INC: $16,515 over 2y, 42% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rocky Mountain Elk Fo…Bass Pro Shops & Cabe…Cabelas Outdoor FundNRA Foundation IncRecreational Boating …National Wild Turkey …Council of State and …Midway USA Foundation…American Bar Associat…Investor Protection T…National Shooting Spo…Delta Dental of Iowa …
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation IncMT22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Whitetails Unlimited Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitetails Unlimited Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Wounded Warriors in Action Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Whitetails Unlimited Inc?

Find your warmest path to Whitetails Unlimited Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 339 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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