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Wisconsin Public Service Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2023
387
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$685kPhilanthropy$546kHealth$268kArts & Culture$262kHuman Services$259kHousing & Shelter$216kEnvironment$133kCommunity Improvement$109kOther$0
02FY2023 · 387 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 387 grants below total $1,215,954 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,833,480 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $617,526 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k356 grants · $388k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $485k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $343k
$700
Median grant
9
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brown County United Way Inc$130,000
St John The Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc$62,500
National Railroad Museum Inc$50,000
Bellin Health Foundation Inc$50,000
Neville Public Museum Foundation Inc$50,000
University of Wisconsin Green Bay Foundation Inc$35,000
Sheboygan Area United Way Inc$32,000
New North Inc$30,000
University of Wisconsin Green Bay Foundation Inc$25,000
Peninsula Players Theatre Foundation Inc$25,000
Northwoods United Way Inc$25,000
Wisconsin Dental Association Foundation Inc$25,000
Pauls Pantry Inc$25,000
Bellin Health Foundation Inc$25,000
St John The Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc$23,000
02Your 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 100 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

100 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 138 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
253

Total granted

$1.8M
$765k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+45%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $280k · revenue +117%
  • BC
    BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY
    3× · 2019–2023 · $275k · revenue +31%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    2× · 2019–2023 · $201k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • SV
    St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci sgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +35%
  • HF
    Habitat For Humanity International Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $34k
  • CC
    CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +2%

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

03Your 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
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
2
Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc

To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.

Human Services
3
Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

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4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment
6
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

—
7
Community Shares of Wisconsin Inc

Community shares of wisconsin (csw), together with its donors and approximately 70 member nonprofits, addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research and public education.

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8
Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals
9
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
10
Progress Lakeshore Inc

To assist local businesses in their growth in the manitowoc county area and to attract new businesses to the manitowoc county area.

Community Improvement
11
Waukesha County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin

Environment
12
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsCommunity Hospital SystemsUnited Way AffiliatesSenior Support ServicesFood Pantries and AssistanceCommunity Theater CompaniesVeteran Support ServicesGovernment Accountability &…Childhood Cancer SupportCommunity Literacy TutoringDevelopmental Disabilities …Animal Rescue and ShelterYmca Community CentersWomen's Empowerment Organiz…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Public Library SupportEducation Equity InitiativesClassical Music OrchestrasCharter and Independent Sch…Public School District Foun…Faith-Based Homeless Servic…Youth Development CentersEnvironmental Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Construc…Community Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsImmigrant and Latino Integr…Early Childhood Care CentersChristian Youth CampsGirls Stem Education Progra…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Domestic Violence and Sexua…Faith-Based Senior LivingCollege Foundation SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%9%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr19%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%8%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr19%36%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%3/342
the rest of the field
8%
3,021/36,184

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.

03the grantee network

299 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. 299 of the 498 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
102
Early backer (in before they grew)
287/299
Grantees still filing
213/299
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $78,500 · OtherTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INCThe Salvation Army — $55,402 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $51,000 · OtherSt Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s — $34,500 · Other+115 more — $812,624 · Other+115 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC — $280,405 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - …Marquette University — $201,150 · EducationMarquette UniversityNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $43,750 · EducationNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNI…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $30,000 · Education+9 more — $87,764 · Education+9 moreBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY — $275,000 · PhilanthropyBROWN COUNTY UNITED …VOLUNTEER CENTER INC — $35,205 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER CENTER INCNORTHWOODS UNITED WAY — $31,500 · PhilanthropyNORTHWOODS UNITED WA…GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $29,150 · PhilanthropyGREATER GREEN BAY CO…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $25,600 · Philanthropy+13 more — $95,326 · Philanthropy+13 moreFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC — $30,750 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $25,625 · Human ServicesWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $21,600 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc — $10,500 · Human ServicesENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC — $7,350 · Human Services+15 more — $46,255 · Human ServicesTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $73,750 · Arts & CulturePENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $25,050 · Arts & CultureWHITE PINE COMMUNITY — $10,900 · Arts & CultureTALONS OUT HONOR FLIGHT INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureNEVER FORGOTTEN HONOR FLIGHT INC — $6,400 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $28,400 · Arts & CultureST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC — $93,886 · Housing & ShelterFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $25,625 · Housing & ShelterVETERANS 1ST OF NEW INC — $10,050 · Housing & ShelterNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC — $7,700 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OSHKOSHINC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC — $31,300 · EnvironmentTREES FOR TOMORROW INC — $23,300 · EnvironmentGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $21,300 · EnvironmentWOODLAND DUNES NATURE CENTER AND PRESERVE INC — $17,300 · EnvironmentCROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CENTRAL CONSERVANCY TRUST INC — $4,100 · Environment+4 more — $10,250 · Environment
Other$1,032,026Education$643,069Philanthropy$491,781Human Services$179,080Arts & Culture$152,000Housing & Shelter$147,261Environment$117,550

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC — $280,405 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY — $275,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMarquette University — $201,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC — $93,886 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $78,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $73,750 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $51,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $43,750 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER INC — $35,205 over 2y, 13% of budgetSt Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s — $34,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC — $33,800 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPAUL'S PANTRY INC — $32,480 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $31,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWOODS UNITED WAY — $31,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC — $31,300 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC — $30,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW NORTH INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $29,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $27,700 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC — $27,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEXPERIENCE GREATER GREEN BAY INC — $27,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $25,625 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $25,625 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $25,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $25,050 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTREES FOR TOMORROW INC — $23,300 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $21,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $21,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDHOOD SAFETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWOODLAND DUNES NATURE CENTER AND PRESERVE INC — $17,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $16,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMichigan Tech Fund — $15,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $15,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONROELENAWEE COUNTIES INC — $13,487 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC — $11,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY GREEN BAY INC — $11,830 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHITE PINE COMMUNITY — $10,900 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc — $10,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVETERANS 1ST OF NEW INC — $10,050 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY — $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMERRILL AREA UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% 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.

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.

Greater Green Bay Com…Green Bay Packers Fou…George Kress Foundati…Community Foundation …J J Keller Foundation…US Ventureschmidt Fam…John and Engrid Meng …Herbert H Kohl Charit…K C Stock Foundation …Little Rapids Corpora…Schneider National Fo…De Pere Christian Out…
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation IncWI168.8× affinity127 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · De Pere Christian Outreach

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Wisconsin Public Service Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wisconsin Public Service Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 498 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home