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Aspirus Health Foundation Inc

We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$556k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$5.4MEducation$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$52kPublic Benefit$25kHuman Services$20kEmployment$10kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $718,743 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,617,198 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,898,455 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
  • $250k+1 grant · $556k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASPIRUS WAUSAU HOSPITAL INC$555,743
CITY OF WAUSAU$52,000
FAMILY HEALTH LA CLINICA$50,000
THREE BRIDGES RECOVERY WISCONSIN INC$31,000
WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC$20,000
CAP SERVICES INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAP SERVICES INC: $10k → 10%THREE BRIDGES RECOVERY WISCONSIN INC: $48k → 11%CAP SERVICES INC: $10k → 10%THREE BRIDGES RECOVERY WISCONSIN INC: $31k → 11%THREE BRIDGES RECOVERY WISCONSIN INC: $23k → 11%THREE BRIDGES RECOVERY WISCONSIN INC: $21k → 11%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 10 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$7.3M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+37%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AW
    ASPIRUS WAUSAU HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +60%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +54%
  • TB
    THREE BRIDGES RECOVERY WISCONSIN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $122k · revenue +234%

Funded once

  • MU
    Marquette Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +36%
  • AD
    AIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATION
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • MT
    MICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -5%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Community Physicians Inc

To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.

Health
2
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
3
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

4
Wisconsin Medical Credit Union

Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…

5
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health
6
Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing & Productivity

The wcmp will grow and nurture the mep's impact in the state of wisconsin by engaging and aligning the best possible resources to help small and medium-sized manufacturers reach their potential.

Education
7
University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc

An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…

Education
8
Wisconsin Dental Association Inc

Advance the interests of wda members and the dental profession by promoting professional excellence and quality oral health care for the public.

Community Improvement
9
Milwaukee Regional Medical Center Inc

The primary purpose of the medical center is to aid and support the development and provision of health services in wisconsin by assisting its members to develop and operate programs of education, research, and patient care. the medical…

Health
10
Wisconsin Health Information Organization Inc

The wisconsin health information organization maintains a centralized health care data repository to provide data and information on the quality, safety, cost, and equity of health care to all health care stakeholders for improvement,…

Health
11
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc

Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.

12
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspirus Wausau Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASPIRUS WAUSAU HOSPITAL INC — $5,081,330 · HealthASPIRUS WAUSAU HOSPITAL INC+2 more — $57,500 · HealthTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,770,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISC…+1 more — $40,242 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $109,101 · OtherMARATHON COUNTY AOD PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $60,000 · OtherCITY OF WAUSAU — $52,000 · OtherLA CLINICA DE LOS CAMPESINOS INC — $50,000 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 · OtherAIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATION — $29,758 · Other+1 more — $10,000 · OtherTHREE BRIDGES RECOVERY WISCONSIN INC — $122,000 · Human ServicesWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCAP SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION — $25,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC — $10,820 · InternationalRHINELANDER AREA FOOD PANTRY INC — $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$5,138,830Education$1,810,242Other$341,859Human Services$182,000Public Benefit$25,000Philanthropy$20,000International$10,820Food & Nutrition$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetASPIRUS WAUSAU HOSPITAL INC — $5,081,330 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,770,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE BRIDGES RECOVERY WISCONSIN INC — $122,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA CLINICA DE LOS CAMPESINOS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMarquette University — $40,242 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAP SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC — $10,820 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDCARING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRHINELANDER AREA FOOD PANTRY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Marshfield Clinic Health System IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marshfield Clinic Health System Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Aspirus Health Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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