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Alm Charities Inc

Alm charities, inc.

$534k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$391kHealth$337kPublic Safety & Disaster$318kFood & Nutrition$267kEducation$210kYouth Development$181kRecreation & Sports$130kHousing & Shelter$124kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $452,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $534,005 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,005 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $428k
$14,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$277k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TOMAH POLICE DEPARTMENT$15,000
THE PARENTING PLACE$15,000
APTIV INC$15,000
THE HUNGER TASK FORCE$15,000
LUKES CLOSET$14,000
ONALASKA FIRE DEPARTMENT$13,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CREATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING SERVICES: $50k → 8%KICKING BEAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY INC: $21k → 14%CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $9k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%FORT MCCOY-FMWR FUND: $6k → 14%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YWCA) - CASA PROGRAM: $10k → 12%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YWCA): $10k → 12%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YWCA): $8k → 12%FORT MCCOY FMWR FUND: $5k → 14%SHELTER DEVELOPMENT THE EXCHANGE: $20k → 12%CASA FOR KIDS INC: $20k → 12%SHELTER DEVELOPMENT THE EXCHANGE: $8k → 12%CIA SIAB INC: $24k → 12%CIA SIAB INC: $24k → 12%THE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%APTIV: $15k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN CENTER: $10k → 12%YWCA OF LA CROSSE: $10k → 12%APTIV FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $10k → 12%THE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDRENS CENTER: $8k → 12%THE FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $8k → 12%CAUSEWAY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $6k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN CENTER: $5k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN CENTER: $5k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Alm Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 70%.

Alm Charities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 30 repeat orgs$944k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
50

Total granted

$1.3M
$787k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+14%

Still filing today

80%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WI
    WAFER INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $121k · revenue +256%
  • CI
    COULEECAP INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $83k · revenue +83%
  • NH
    NEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue ×46
  • CC
    CREATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING SERVICES INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • OE
    ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
2
Wisconsin Community Services Inc

Wisconsin community services advocates for justice and community safety, providing innovative opportunities for individuals to overcome adversity.

Crime & Legal
3
Community Action Inc of Rock & Walworth Counties

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…

Community Improvement
4
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
5
Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
6
West Central Community Action

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.

Human Services
7
Lss Foundation Inc

Supporting the tax exempt purpose of lutheran social services of wisconsin and upper michigan, inc.

Housing & Shelter
8
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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9
St Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc

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…

—
10
Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

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…

Health
11
Lad Lake Inc

The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.

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12
West Central Initiative

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Children's Center Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
43/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $67,000 · OtherLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Associat…University of Wisconsin Madison: $60,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonST LUKE LUTHERAN CHURCH: $45,000 · OtherCASA FOR KIDS INC: $60,000 · OtherCASA FOR KIDS INCMONROE COUNTY SHERIFF POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $39,000 · OtherOUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE OF THE SEVEN RIVERS REGION INC: $40,000 · Other+51 more: $785,086 · Other+51 moreCREATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING SERVICES INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Human ServicesCREATIVE COMMUNITY …CIA SIAB INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesCIA SIAB INCFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHILDREN…YWCA LA CROSSE INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesYWCA LA CROSSE INCTHE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD FIGHT COMM…SHELTER DEVELOPMENT INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesSHELTER DEVELOPMENT…APTIV FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesAPTIV FOUNDATION IN…KICKING BEAR FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesKICKING BEAR FOUNDA…COMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesCASA FOR KIDS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $18,000 · Human Services+3 more: $25,000 · Human Services+3 moreNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC: $75,000 · HealthNEW HORIZON…ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC: $67,000 · HealthST CLARE HE…ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC: $50,000 · HealthADULT & TEE…MAYO CLINIC: $43,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICWAFER INC: $121,200 · Food & NutritionWAFER INCHunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc: $53,026 · Food & NutritionHunger Ta…BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY: $25,000 · Food & NutritionBEYOND BL…+1 more: $5,200 · Food & NutritionVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF COULEE REGION RSVP INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $72,170 · Youth DevelopmentJUNEAU COUNTY AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL AND RECREATIONAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WEST CENTRAL WIS: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentWISCONSIN FIRST ROBOTICS INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE: $7,700 · Youth DevelopmentCOULEECAP INC: $82,500 · Membership BenefitNODINE FIRE RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$1,096,086Human Services$394,000Health$235,000Food & Nutrition$204,426Philanthropy$157,000Youth Development$154,870Membership Benefit$107,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAFER INC: $121,200 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCOULEECAP INC: $82,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC: $75,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $72,170 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $67,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC: $67,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCASA FOR KIDS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetHunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc: $53,026 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC: $50,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCREATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING SERVICES INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCIA SIAB INC: $48,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $43,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE OF THE SEVEN RIVERS REGION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYWCA LA CROSSE INC: $38,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PARENTING PLACE INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNEAU COUNTY AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIAL AND RECREATIONAL SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER DEVELOPMENT INC: $28,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetAPTIV INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLMEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetAPTIV FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE GREATER LACROSSE REGION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKICKING BEAR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBEYOND BLESSED PANTRY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARING PANTRY INC: $21,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WEST CENTRAL WIS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCASA FOR KIDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY LIBRARY CONSORTIUM INC: $15,971 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHILEDA INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWISCONSIN FIRST ROBOTICS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetONALASKA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLa Crosse City Vision Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetLA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE: $7,700 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

La Crosse Community F…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Gundersen Lutheran Ad…Green Bay Packers Fou…Lyche Family Foundati…Cleary-Kumm Foundatio…Otto Bremer TrustSmith Russell & Vera …Great Rivers United W…John & Kathy Reinhart…Sue Anne Gelatt Found…Herbert H Kohl Charit…
La Crosse Community FoundationWI85.2× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Alm Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alm Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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 Alm Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Alm Charities 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 92 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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