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Aspirus Inc

We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.

$207k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$480kRecreation & Sports$100kArts & Culture$55kHealth$50kCommunity Improvement$43kEducation$17k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $130,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $207,254 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,254 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WISCONSIN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY: $148k → 11%HEALTHY WISCONSIN ALLIANCE INC: $15k → 10%UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY: $87k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY: $70k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY: $57k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY: $54k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY: $43k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY: $22k → 11%NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $17k → 11%ASPIRUS MEDICAL GROUP INC: $10k → 11%CENTERGY INC: $5k → 11%CENTERGY INC: $5k → 11%CENTERGY INC: $5k → 11%CENTERGY INC: $5k → 11%NORTH CENTRAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $20k → 11%LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $20k → 11%WAUSAU AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%GREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY: $8k → 11%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$563k · 4 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$563k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $480k · revenue +7%
  • LY
    LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +104%
  • CI
    Centergy Inc
    4× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • NC
    North Central Health Care
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • NT
    NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +27%
  • PA
    PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +245%
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
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy
2
Wisconsin Horse Alliance
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3
Wisconsin Public Health Association Inc

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.

—
4
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.

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5
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
6
The Wha Foundation Inc

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…

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7
Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Inc

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.

—
8
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Uwm At Waukesha Foundation Inc

To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus

—
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 Northern Highland Ahec Inc

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…

Health
12
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $480,099 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INCNorth Central Health Care: $100,000 · OtherNorth Central Health CareLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $40,000 · OtherLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INCWISCONSIN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · OtherWISCONSIN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INCGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD: $22,500 · OtherGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHI…Centergy Inc: $20,000 · OtherCentergy IncNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUND…HEALTHY WISCONSIN ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · OtherHEALTHY WISCONSIN ALLIANCE INCPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureASPIRUS MEDICAL GROUP INC: $10,000 · Health
Philanthropy$480,099Other$239,500Arts & Culture$15,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $480,099 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD: $22,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetCentergy Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASPIRUS MEDICAL GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Judd S Alexander Foun…Community Foundation …Aspirus Wausau Hospit…Dwight and Linda Davi…Dan Storey Foundation…Incrediblebank Founda…Ba & Esther Greenheck…George Kress Foundati…
Judd S Alexander FoundationWI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 10 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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