· Public charity
Alm Charities Inc
Alm charities, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $452,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $534,005 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $82,005 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $428k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION | $40,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE | $39,000 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $30,000 |
| LA CROSSE AREA FAMILY YMCA | $26,000 |
| NODINE FIRE & RESCUE | $25,000 |
| HOLMEN POLICE DEPARTMENT | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE OF 7 RIVERS REGION | $20,000 |
| OUTDOORS FOREVER | $15,500 |
| THE HUNGER TASK FORCE | $15,000 |
| APTIV INC | $15,000 |
| TOMAH POLICE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| THE PARENTING PLACE | $15,000 |
| LUKES CLOSET | $14,000 |
| ONALASKA FIRE DEPARTMENT | $13,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $366k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of Alm Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- WIWAFER INC5× · 2019–2025 · $121k · revenue +256%
- CICOULEECAP INC5× · 2019–2025 · $83k · revenue +83%
- NHNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC5× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CCCREATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING SERVICES INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- OEONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -10%
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue ×46
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Wisconsin community services advocates for justice and community safety, providing innovative opportunities for individuals to overcome adversity.
At community action we provide access and opportunity for those we serve and those who support our efforts. through innovative programs and strong community partnerships we eliminate barriers, establishing clear pathways to economic…
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Supporting the tax exempt purpose of lutheran social services of wisconsin and upper michigan, inc.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
St. croix valley habitat for humanity partners with working families, sponsors, and communities to build affordable, sustainable, quality homes and to provide support services that promote successful home purchase and ownership in pierce…
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Children's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Mauston Area Chamber of Commerce Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WAFER INC ↗
- Who funds COULEECAP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Hunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIA SIAB INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE OF THE SEVEN RIVERS REGION INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY SHERIFF POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNEAU COUNTY AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL AND RECREATIONAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds APTIV INC ↗
- Who funds NODINE FIRE RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE GREATER LACROSSE REGION INC ↗
- Who funds APTIV FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLMEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY ↗
- Who funds KICKING BEAR FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Great Rivers United Way Inc · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alm Charities Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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