Wisconsin · Community foundation
Black River Falls Area Foundation
We address a broad range of community goals rather than focusing on one particular issue. In this way, we are able to meet the changing needs and provide support to what matters most to the people who live and work in the black river falls area.
- $656k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $501k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,245
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $223,265
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Black River Falls Area Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $501k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $366k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $313k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $352k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $625k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $711k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $439k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $107k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Black River Falls Skyline Golf Course | $691,895 | 8 | n/a |
| City of Black River Falls | $690,402 | 4 | n/a |
| Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc | $503,100 | 6 | 93% |
| Jackson County Humane Society Inc | $425,000 | 5 | 80% |
| Brf School District | $199,926 | 7 | n/a |
| Village of Merrillan - Fire Department | $173,337 | 6 | n/a |
| Methodist Church of Black River Falls Inc | $145,307 | 5 | n/a |
| Village of Alma Center - Fire Deparment | $137,266 | 8 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc | $75,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Hatfield Fire & Rescue Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 40% |
Show all 36 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Black River Falls Skyline Golf Course | $691,895 | 8 | n/a |
| City of Black River Falls | $690,402 | 4 | n/a |
| Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc | $503,100 | 6 | 93% |
| Jackson County Humane Society Inc | $425,000 | 5 | 80% |
| Brf School District | $199,926 | 7 | n/a |
| Village of Merrillan - Fire Department | $173,337 | 6 | n/a |
| Methodist Church of Black River Falls Inc | $145,307 | 5 | n/a |
| Village of Alma Center - Fire Deparment | $137,266 | 8 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc | $75,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Hatfield Fire & Rescue Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Black River Health Inc | $49,118 | 1 | 0% |
| Hixton Volunteer Fire Department | $44,060 | 4 | 9% |
| Friends Sharing Food Inc | $41,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Jackson County Department of Health and Human Services | $37,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church | $35,027 | 3 | n/a |
| Village of Alma Center - First Responders | $31,398 | 1 | n/a |
| Bolton Refuge House Inc | $27,567 | 3 | 2% |
| Brf - Educational Enrichment Fund | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| School District of Alma Center-Humbird-Merrillan | $21,540 | 2 | n/a |
| Blair Taylor High School | $20,628 | 2 | n/a |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Citizens Cemetery Association | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black River Falls Fire Department | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Promise of the Great Rivers Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Farmington Emergency Medical Team Inc | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black River Area Childcare Services Inc | $10,960 | 2 | 1% |
| Aptiv Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Village of Alma Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson County Emergency Medical Association | $8,370 | 1 | n/a |
| St John's Lutheran Church | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson County Child Care Network Inc | $7,837 | 1 | 6% |
| Bruces Legacy Inc | $6,400 | 1 | 9% |
| Melrose First Responders Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Wisconsin | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| York-Northfield Sportsmans Club Incorporated | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Wisconsin | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Black River Falls Area Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Lunda Charitable Fund Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Black River Falls Area Foundation
- How much does Black River Falls Area Foundation give?
- Black River Falls Area Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $501,392, out of $655,566 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Black River Falls Area Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (28%), Human Services (17%), Animals (12%).
- Who are Black River Falls Area Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Black River Falls Skyline Golf Course ($692k), City of Black River Falls ($690k), Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc ($503k).
- Does Black River Falls Area Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Black River Falls Area Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lunda Charitable Fund Inc, Land O'Lakes Foundation, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Black River Falls Area Foundation based?
- Black River Falls Area Foundation is based in WI.
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