· Private foundation
William & Susan Matheson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDEN HOUSE | $110,000 |
| RAWHIDE YOUTH SERVICES | $45,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF BROWN COUNTY | $16,400 |
| CURATIVE CONNECTIONS | $15,000 |
| EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S HOMELESS SHELTER | $10,000 |
| PAUL'S PANTRY | $10,000 |
| LAUNDRY LOVE BROWN COUNTY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RIRAWHIDE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +41%
- EEEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +155%
- PPPAUL'S PANTRY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- CCCOLONIAL CLUB INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- SHSYBLE HOPP SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Elizabeth B and Philip J Hendrickson Foundation Ltd · Cloud Family Foundation Inc · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · De Pere Christian Outreach · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · Schreiber Foods Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William & Susan Matheson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Susan Matheson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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