Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GROWING MINDS INC
GROWING MINDS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,166 to it, the largest being THE LUBAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($195,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Pure Edge Incportfolio match
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $131k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GROWING MINDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GROWING MINDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of GROWING MINDS INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 88 organizations near you
- Pure Edge Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Urban League of Greater Atlanta Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 4point0 Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brewers Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 99 organizations near you
- Trust for the Meditation Processportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kares 4 Kids Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Communities in Schools of Georgiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- One Percent for Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Leaders of Color Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zephyr Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like GROWING MINDS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROWING MINDS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GROWING MINDS INC?
- GROWING MINDS INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,166 to it, the largest being THE LUBAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($195,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GROWING MINDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $247,166 in grants to GROWING MINDS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GROWING MINDS INC?
- THE LUBAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GROWING MINDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing