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Dr Rg and Sarah Raymond Foundation

Fond Du Lac, WI · EIN 39-6051142. Reported 111 grants totalling $308,000 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,050median grant
$308,000granted, 2021-2024
34organizations funded
93%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,414,151assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Dr Rg and Sarah Raymond Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,050. Half of everything it gave fell between $550 and $4,200; the smallest was $500 and the largest $13,750. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
30 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
65 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Brownsville Public LibraryBrownsville, WI$33,600442024
Village of BrownvilleBrownsville, WI$32,500442024
Salvation ArmyFond Du Lac, WI$22,100332023
Loaves & Fishes ProgramFond Du Lac, WI$17,700442024
Fond Du Lac YMCAFond Du Lac, WI$16,800442024
Marian UniversityFond Du Lac, WI$16,800442024
St Mary's Springs AcademyFond Du Lac, WI$16,800442024
Winnebago Lutheran AcademyFond Du Lac, WI$16,800442024
Solutions Center Shelter & SupportFond Du Lac, WI$16,500442024
St Mary's ChurchLomira, WI$12,600222022
St Mary's Church LomiraLomira, WI$12,600222024
Bay Lakes Council Boy ScoutsAppleton, WI$8,400442024
Brooke IndustriesFond Du Lac, WI$8,400442024
Manitou Girl Scout CouncilSheboygan, WI$8,400442024
Mayville Public LibraryMayville, WI$8,300442024
Blandine HouseFond Du Lac, WI$8,200442024
Fdl Blue Line Hockey Club IncFond Du Lac, WI$8,000442024
Stmary's School-MayvilleMayville, WI$6,000442024
Family Resource Center of Fond Du Lac CountyFond Du Lac, WI$4,500332023
Theresa Public LibraryTheresa, WI$4,400442024
Lomira Quad Graphics Community FundSussex, WI$2,200222022
Lomira Quad Graphics Community LibraryLomira, WI$2,200222024
St Johns Lutheran Church LomiraLomira, WI$2,200442024
Church of PeaceFond Du Lac, WI$2,000442024
Holy Family Catholic CongregationFond Du Lac, WI$2,000112024
Lomira Food PantryFond Du Lac, WI$2,000112024
Mayville Food PantryMayville, WI$2,000112024
Society of St Vincent Depaul - Fond Du LacFond Du Lac, WI$2,000112024
Society of St Vincent Depaul - Mayville Co St Mary's CongregationMayville, WI$2,000112024
Sons of ZebedeeFond Du Lac, WI$2,000442024
St Lawrence SeminaryMt Calvary, WI$2,000442024
St Pauls CathedralFond Du Lac, WI$2,000442024
St Pauls Church - BrownvilleBrownsville, WI$2,000442024
Trinity Methodist ChurchLomira, WI$2,000442024

29 of 34 (85%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 93%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
7 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Education
4 grants
Human Services
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$84,000$2,100
202227$73,000$2,050
202327$75,000$2,100
202430$76,000$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Fond Du Lac, WI
$165K
Brownsville, WI
$68K
Lomira, WI
$32K
Mayville, WI
$18K
Appleton, WI
$8K
Sheboygan, WI
$8K
Theresa, WI
$4K
Sussex, WI
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fond Du Lac Area Foundation7 shared recipientsGrande Foundation6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsAgnesian Healthcare Inc4 shared recipientsAlliant Energy Foundation Inc2 shared recipientsGreen Bay Packers Foundation2 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,050. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Dr Rg and Sarah Raymond Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Co Natl Exchange Bank 130 S Main, Fond Du Lac, WI, 54935. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 39-6051142 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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