· Public charity
Aspirus Inc
We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $130,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $207,254 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,254 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 · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY | $70,000 |
| WISCONSIN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC | $20,000 |
| HEALTHY WISCONSIN ALLIANCE INC | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +104% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $480k · revenue +7%
- LYLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +104%
- CICentergy Inc4× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- NCNorth Central Health Careone grant, 2018 · $100k
- NTNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +27%
- PAPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +245%
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.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
Our mission is to build collective action to address root-causes and advance public health policy & practice to achieve a vision for a healthier, safer, and more equitable wisconsin.
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.
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.
The wha foundation, inc. was formed to carry on educational, literacy, research, and charitable program related to the field of health, including but not limited to hospital care and administration, with the following specific objects: to…
To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.
To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus
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,…
Our mission is to enhance access of quality primary healthcare for underserved populations in the northern highland ahec region of wi. we achieve our mission by connecting students to careers, professionals to communities, and communities…
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD ↗
- Who funds Centergy Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY WISCONSIN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS MEDICAL GROUP INC ↗
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: Judd S Alexander Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Aspirus Wausau Hospital Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Dan Storey Foundation Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · George Kress Foundation 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 Aspirus 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.
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.