· Private foundation
Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAFTON HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| OZAUKEE COUNTY ADULT LITERACY | $1,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| NORTHERN GRACE YOUTH CAMP | $1,000 |
| OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| CELEBRATE GRAFTON | $1,000 |
| COPE SERVICES | $1,000 |
| FAMILY SHARING | $1,000 |
| FRIEND OF USS LIBERTY LIBRARY | $500 |
| GRAFTON AREA LIVE ARTS | $500 |
| GRAFTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| OZAUKEE NONPROFIT CENTER | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GEGRAFTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +20%
OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +55%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +34%
Funded once
OZAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +26%
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.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
Historical education and preservation
The Museum, located just east of historic downtown Cedarburg, Wisconsin is dedicated to educating the public about the artistice, cultural, historic and social importance of quilts and fiber arts. We also seek to increase the awareness of…
Enhance the well-being of old world wisconsin
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Promote enhanced relationship w/Oconomowocs Sister City in Dietzenbach, Germany, celebrate the rich German heritage w/in the community, showcase Oconomowocs downtown, provide economic assistance to foster studen relations with Dietzenbach…
The mission of the Cedarburg Cultural Center is to provide a gathering place to celebrate community, the arts and local heritage.
Stimulate development of the local economy, provide support to existing and prospective employers, serve as a professional resource to local units of government and promote tourism opportunities within oconto county wisconsin.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Public Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Celebrate Grafton Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 GRAFTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COPE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN GRACE YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE GRAFTON INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE NONPROFIT CENTER INC ↗
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.
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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 Zaun Memorial Foundation Ltd 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.
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