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Black River Falls Area Foundation

We address a broad range of community goals rather than focusing on one particular issue.

$656k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$223k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.0MHuman Services$598kAnimals$425kPublic Safety & Disaster$416kPublic Benefit$283kEducation$266kReligion$161kArts & Culture$143kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $501,392, the rows itemized in this filing. The $655,566 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $154,174 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $151k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $323k
$10,245
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLS SKYLINE GOLF COURSE$223,265
JACKSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$100,000
BLACK RIVER FALLS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$45,000
CITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY$27,000
MIGHTY TABLE$19,800
CITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLS$19,182
BLACK RIVER FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,245
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JACKSON COUNTY$10,000
BLAIR TAYLOR SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
VILLAGE OF ALMA CENTER$10,000
JC INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS$8,600
HIXTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$6,500
ALMA CENTER COMMUNITY FIRE DISTRICT (COUNTY LINE FIRE & RESCUE)$6,300
JACKSON COUNTY DEPART HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES$5,500
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOLTON REFUGE HOUSE: $16k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY: $12k → 14%BOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC: $6k → 12%BOLTON REFUGE HOUSE: $5k → 12%JACKSON COUNTY CHILD CARE NETWORK: $8k → 13%BLACK RIVER AREA CHILD CARE SERVICES: $6k → 13%BLACK RIVER AREA CHILD CARE: $5k → 13%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 20 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
17

Total granted

$3.4M
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+106%

Still filing today

50%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterAnimalsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • JC
    Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $503k · revenue +146% · 93% of their budget
  • JC
    Jackson County Humane Society Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +245% · 80% of their budget
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $76k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • BR
    BLACK RIVER HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $49k · revenue -6%
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF ALMA CENTER - FIRST RESPONDERS
    one grant, 2020 · $31k
  • BE
    BRF - EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Van Dyne Volunteer Fire Department

Provide fire protection and first responder services to the towns of black wolf and friendship, wisconsin

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2
Jackson Community Ambulance

The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Twin Lakes Vol Fire Dept and Rescue Squad

Serving the village of twin lakes wi and surrounding communities with full time paid staff and volunteer assistajce for firefighting and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
4
New Glarus Emergency Medical Services in

Provide emergency medical services and transport to the Village of New Glarus and surrounding municipalities

Health
5
Black Township Fire & Rescue

To providefire & emergency protection to area residence

—
6
Johnson City Vol Fire Dept

Protect lives and property from fire/disaster

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Fennimore Area Rescue Squad Inc

Provide emergency medical services in the fennimore, wi area.

Health
8
Lake Jackson Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide emergency medical care to sick & injured.

Health
9
River Falls Community Food Pantry

Provide food to those in need in the River Falls Community

Food & Nutrition
10
Knox County Rescue

Provide rescue and other community emergency services

—
11
Blackford County Animal Shelter Inc

Retrieve, house & relocate animals

Animals
12
Brady Township Volunteer Fire Rescue and Ambulance Co Inc

To provide emergency fire, rescue and ambulance services to Brady Township and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black River Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bruces Legacy 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

15 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. 15 of the 38 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLS SKYLINE GOLF COURSE: $691,895 · OtherCITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLS SKYLINE GOLF COURSECITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLS: $690,402 · OtherCITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLSJackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc: $503,100 · OtherJackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers IncBRF SCHOOL DISTRICT: $199,926 · OtherBRF SCHOOL DISTRICTVILLAGE OF MERRILLAN - FIRE DEPARTMENT: $173,337 · OtherVILLAGE OF MERRILLAN - FIRE DEPARTMENTMETHODIST CHURCH OF BLACK RIVER FALLS INC: $145,307 · OtherVILLAGE OF ALMA CENTER - FIRE DEPARMENT: $137,266 · Other+18 more: $281,763 · Other+18 moreJackson County Humane Society Inc: $425,000 · AnimalsJackson Count…HATFIELD FIRE & RESCUE INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHIXTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $44,060 · Public Safety & DisasterBruces Legacy Inc: $6,400 · Public Safety & DisasterBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC: $75,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC: $27,567 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesBLACK RIVER AREA CHILDCARE SERVICES INC: $10,960 · Human ServicesJACKSON COUNTY CHILD CARE NETWORK INC: $7,837 · Human ServicesBLACK RIVER HEALTH INC: $49,118 · HealthFRIENDS SHARING FOOD INC: $41,000 · Food & NutritionSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterAPTIV INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,822,996Animals$425,000Public Safety & Disaster$100,460Youth Development$75,500Human Services$58,364Health$49,118Food & Nutrition$41,000Housing & Shelter$27,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc: $503,100 over 6y, 93% of budgetJackson County Humane Society Inc: $425,000 over 5y, 80% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC: $75,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHATFIELD FIRE & RESCUE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetBLACK RIVER HEALTH INC: $49,118 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIXTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $44,060 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetFRIENDS SHARING FOOD INC: $41,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetBOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC: $27,567 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBLACK RIVER AREA CHILDCARE SERVICES INC: $10,960 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAPTIV INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CHILD CARE NETWORK INC: $7,837 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBruces Legacy Inc: $6,400 over 1y, 8.8% 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.

  • Who funds Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jackson County Humane Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds HATFIELD FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK RIVER HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds HIXTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS SHARING FOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds BOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Farmington Emergency Medical Team Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLACK RIVER AREA CHILDCARE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds APTIV INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CHILD CARE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Bruces Legacy Inc ↗

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.

Lunda Charitable Fund…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Green Bay Packers Fou…Otto Bremer TrustAlliant Energy Founda…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lunda Charitable Fund IncWI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Black River Falls Area Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black River Falls Area Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    5report 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, 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 38 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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