Wochinske Family Foundation Inc
De Pere, WI · EIN 26-3539749. Reported 136 grants totalling $671,500 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Wochinske Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uw-Green Bay Foundation | Green Bay, WI | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Golden House | Green Bay, WI | $38,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint John's Ministries | Green Bay, WI | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Encompass Early Education and Care Inc | Green Bay, WI | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Milwaukee Public Library Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $30,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bellin College of Nursing | Green Bay, WI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Brown County Library | Green Bay, WI | $22,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Green Bay Botanical Garden | Green Bay, WI | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Brown County United Way | Green Bay, WI | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Green Bay, WI | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Green Bay, WI | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Neighborworks Green Bay | Green Bay, WI | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rawhide | New London, WI | $16,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Pals Youth & Families | Green Bay, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YWCA Greater Green Bay Area | Green Bay, WI | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeastern Wisconsin | Green Bay, WI | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Independence First | Milwaukee, WI | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nwtc Educational Foundation Inc | Green Bay, WI | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paul's Pantry | Green Bay, WI | $13,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Howe Community Resource Center | Green Bay, WI | $12,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hshs St Vincentst Mary Foundation | Green Bay, WI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lacausa | Milwaukee, WI | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin | Green Bay, WI | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cp Inc | Green Bay, WI | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Curative Connections | Green Bay, WI | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Foundations Health & Wholeness | Green Bay, WI | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Zoological Society Inc | Green Bay, WI | $10,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA Alba Melanie Hispanic Community Resource Center | Green Bay, WI | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| House of Hope | Green Bay, WI | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Literacy Green Bay | Green Bay, WI | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aspiro | Green Bay, WI | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oral Health Partnership | Green Bay, WI | $7,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $6,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust | Appleton, WI | $6,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Women's Fund of Greater Green Bay | Green Bay, WI | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| City of De Pere Parks Recreation and Forestry Department | De Pere, WI | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| De Pere Baseball Inc | De Pere, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| De Pere Recreation Scholarship Fund | De Pere, WI | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Neville Public Museum Foundation | Green Bay, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center | Green Bay, WI | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
36 of 40 (90%) 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 88%, 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.
- Uw-Green Bay Foundation
STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND UNIVERSITY IMPROVEMENT - Saint John's Ministries
ASSIST HOMELESS OR THOSE EXPERIENCING HOUSING INSTABILITY - Encompass Early Education and Care Inc
EARLY EDUCATION AND CHILDCARE - Friends of Pals Youth & Families
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, FAMILY SUPPORT, FOSTER CARE, SHELTER CARE - Golden House
SHELTER AND SERVIES FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE VICTIMS - Hshs St Vincentst Mary Foundation
HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND PATIENT CARE
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 64 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 35 | $160,000 | $3,000 |
| 2022 | 33 | $166,500 | $3,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $166,000 | $3,750 |
| 2024 | 36 | $179,000 | $2,750 |
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
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
- 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.
- 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 Wochinske Family Foundation Inc'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: 1981 Hawthorne Heights, De Pere, WI, 54115. 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.
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