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4C For Children Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

4C For Children Inc

4C is the state appointed Child Care Resource and Referral Agency serving six counties Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
$17,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc$39,828
Western Dairyland aka Child Care Partnership$26,000
Child Care Resource & Referral Inc$23,000
Family & Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin Inc$17,500
The Parenting Place$12,794
Northwest Connection Family Resources$10,650
Childcaring Inc$8,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Child Care Resource & Referral Inc: $23k → 7%Family & Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin Inc: $18k → 10%Community Coordinated Child Care Inc: $40k → 10%Northwest Connection Family Resources: $11k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
03the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
0/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $39,828 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INCCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN: $23,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INFAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INCNORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES: $10,650 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCESWESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $26,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN DAIRYLAND ECO…THE PARENTING PLACE INC: $12,794 · Crime & LegalTHE PARENT…CHILDCARING INC: $8,000 · Other
Human Services$90,978Community Improvement$26,000Crime & Legal$12,794Other$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $39,828 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN: $23,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $17,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PARENTING PLACE INC: $12,794 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES: $10,650 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDCARING INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Registry IncThriving Wisconsin IncOtto Bremer TrustAmazonsmile Foundation
The Registry IncWI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Registry Inc · Thriving Wisconsin Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 4C For Children Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 4C For Children Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to 4C For Children Inc?

    Find your warmest path to 4C For Children Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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