LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

T31

Classification

1000

Street

915 MEMORIAL DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• MANITOWOC COUNTY CRIMESTOPPERS INC

  EIN 39-1775129

• RUTH ST JOHN & JOHN DUNHAM WEST FOUNDATION INC

  EIN 39-6056375

Mission and programs · 2025

• LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, INC. IS A TAX EXEMPT PUBLIC CHARITY ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE AND MANAGE ENDOWMENT FUNDS PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF SHEBOYGAN AND MANITOWOC COUNTIES. THE FOUNDATION RECEIVES, ADMINISTERS, AND DISTRIBUTES GIFTS FROM INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE LONG TERM BENEFIT OF THE COUNTIES IT SERVES. DURING 2025, THE FOUNDATION ADDED SIX NEW FUNDS TO ITS PORTFOLIO FOR A TOTAL OF 111 FUNDS WITH AN AGGREGATE MARKET VALUE OF $150.5 MILLION AT YEAR END. AVERAGE FUND SIZE WAS $1.4 MILLION. DURING 2025, GROWTH IN GIFTS TO NEW AND EXISTING FUNDS WAS $21.7 MILLION. THE FOUNDATION ISSUED 349 GRANTS DURING 2025 TOTALING $4.3 MILLION. SINCE THE FIRST FUND WAS ESTABLISHED IN MAY 2011, THE FOUNDATION HAS DISTRIBUTED $29.2 MILLION IN GRANTS.

  Expenses $3,273,198 · Grants $3,017,961 · Revenue $130,497

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $26,474,338

  Expenses

  $3,657,101

  Contributions

  $20,419,398

  Grants paid

  $3,017,961

• 2024

  Revenue

  $16,802,979

  Expenses

  $1,980,681

  Contributions

  $13,031,849

  Grants paid

  $1,570,376

• 2023

  Revenue

  $13,617,516

  Expenses

  $1,791,149

  Contributions

  $11,525,190

  Grants paid

  $1,475,103

• 2022

  Revenue

  $7,908,496

  Expenses

  $2,163,783

  Contributions

  $5,897,181

  Grants paid

  $1,876,353

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,447,906

  Expenses

  $2,442,942

  Assets (EOY)

  $63,225,360

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,804,864

  Expenses

  $1,745,009

  Assets (EOY)

  $53,091,226

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,685,331

  Expenses

  $1,555,210

  Assets (EOY)

  $43,299,229

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,212,603

  Expenses

  $1,840,671

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,795,235

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,253,929

  Expenses

  $1,760,139

  Assets (EOY)

  $31,105,421

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,785,961

  Expenses

  $1,802,696

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,523,457

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,524,651

  Expenses

  $3,715,276

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,814,076

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,018,586

  Expenses

  $681,313

  Assets (EOY)

  $20,404,980

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,968,690

  Expenses

  $395,849

  Assets (EOY)

  $10,415,224

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $172,946

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,790,965

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2009

Tax period

1 January 2009 to 31 December 2009

Principal officer

thomas bare

Mailing address

915 memorial drivemanitowoc WI 54220

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

• LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $276,450

  2025 · $4,600 LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT; $271,850 OPERATIONS

• DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC

  $241,667

  2025 · $50,000 UNRESTRICTED; $16,667- A DONATION ON BEHALF OF MIKE, MARK, AND SCOTT MOLEPSKE IN MEMORY OF THEIR MOTHER, KAY SCHROEDER; $70,000 - A DONATION BY MIKE AND AMY MOLEPSKE IN HONOR OF THEIR MOTHERS, PATTI HOLMES AND KAY SCHROEDER; $5,000 - A DONATION IN HONOR OF JIM HOLMES AS A BIRTHDAY GIFT; $100,000 LIVASU PROJECT

• LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC

  $233,615

  2023 · $5,000 - CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE EXCELLENCE CAMPAIGN, $198,615 - SCHOLARSHIPS, $30,000 - JOHN AND KATE MILLER IMPACT FUND: ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024

• LAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAMS

  $180,000

  2025 · UNRESTRICTED

• MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

  $168,600

  2025 · $450 ENDOWMENT FUND; $10,000 ANNUAL APPEAL; $56,150 UNRESTRICTED; $102,000 MEEME HOUSE LOAN

• RONCALLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

  $168,150

  2022 · $1K RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL; $97,150 SCHOLARSHIPS; $35K TO RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL, $35K TO RONCALLI ELEMENTARY

• SAMARITAN'S PURSE

  $160,000

  2025 · UNRESTRICTED

• RONCALLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

  $158,950

  2025 · $20,000 RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL; $20,000 RONCALLI MIDDLE SCHOOL; $20,000 RONCALLI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; $98,950 RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS

• RONCALLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

  $147,720

  2024 · $1,000 - RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL, $88,720 - 2024 DISTRIBUTION RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL, $27,000 - RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL, $31,000 - RONCALLI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

• RONCALLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

  $145,900

  2023 · $90,900 - RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL DISTRIBUTION - SCHOLARSHIPS, $25,000 - RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL, $30,000 - RONCALLI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

  $276,450

  2025 · $4,600 LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT; $271,850 OPERATIONS

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $100,250

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $80,000

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $75,200

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• LESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC

  $25,000

  2024 · ESTABLISH DESIGNATED FUND IN MEMORY OF DR. LARRY KANER

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