· Private foundation
Wisner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL CRAFT COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SALINE | $5,000 |
| MILWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MONA SHORES HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BRIEF | $5,000 |
| MONA SHORES PARENT ASSOC | $5,000 |
| BABY READ | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,161 |
| BUILDING BEDS 4 KIDS | $4,110 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,037 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BRISTOW RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,900 |
| LAKE HARBOR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $530 |
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 (FY18–20, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- LWLEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC4× · 2018–2022 · $14k · revenue +19% · 77% of their budget
- TBThe Barker Adoption Foundation2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +26%
- HHEARD2× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- AHAL HOLMES ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $9k
- WSWOODWARD SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $6k
- CPCEDAR POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Through the efforts of committed volunteers, Kenmore Elementary PTA is dedicated to providing support services, learning opportunities, and community events to create a positive educational environment and school community for students,…
The ketterlinus elementary school pto exists to promote the educational welfare and development of the students at ketterlinus elementary school, to support united efforts among educators and parents for the benefit of the students, and to…
Parent Teacher Association
The sole purpose of lakewood elementary ptt is to foster pride, enthusiasm and positive action to support learning. through fundraising and family activities, lakewood elementary ptt will promote school/community relationships that enhance…
Lincoln elementary scholl pta mission is to support and speak on behalf of children and youth in the schools, in the community, and before governmental bodies and other organizations that make decisions affecting children; to assist…
The purpose of the pender pto is to support the education of children in the pender public schools by fostering relationships among the school, parents and teachers.
PTO to support and fund activities at Berkley Elementary school.
To foster a sense of support, pride, and enthusiasm; to encourage parent and community involvement in the north lee area; and to strengthen the connection between home and school so that parents and teachers can work together effectively…
The purpose of laketown elementary school pto is to support the education of children at laketown elementary school by fostering the relationship between school, home, and community for the academic success of all the students of the…
The purpose of the Washington Elementary PTA is to promote the welfare of children in the home, school, and community and, raise standards of home life, connect home and school, and connect educators and the general public. The Washington…
The primary exempt purpose of a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is to promote the welfare, health, safety, and educational success of children and youth through strong parent, family, school, and community involvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Children's Chorus and the most unlike its peers is Piney Branch Elementary 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.
11 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. 11 of the 55 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 KALAMAZOO CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds LEST WE FORGET OUR VETS INC ↗
- Who funds The Barker Adoption Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARD ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SALINE ↗
- Who funds Programs to Educate All Cyclists ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PINEY BRANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Wisner Family Foundation 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.
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.