How much did COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$24MArts & Culture$23MHuman Services$22MEducation$12MHealth$11MHousing & Shelter$10MEnvironment$10MFood & Nutrition$4.8MEmployment$2.8MOther$71M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

episcopal churchurban economicyouth educationpregnancyactsabuse treatmentsoccer

2020

christianityeducational socialadult childdevotedprimary elementaryfood banksbanks pantries

2021

christianitydisciplines necgovernment administrationmuseumscrosseadministeringdistrict hilbert

2022

culture humanitiesimprovement buildingtechnology reseearchdeltaeducation careanimal-relatedinternational foreign

2023

culture humanitiesgoodwill ncwveterananimal-relatedemployment goodwillvan andelimprovement building

2024

culture humanitiesengineeringfurtherpulp papereducation religion-relatedfoster youthwine

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 448 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k88 grants · $619k
$10k–50k234 grants · $5.3M
$50k–250k108 grants · $11M
$250k+18 grants · $15M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$537M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE TROUT MUSEUM OF ART$5,841,877
PILLARS$1,318,569
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY$1,050,423
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION$1,000,000
FRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED$733,959
ST MARY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (GREENVILLE)$640,000
UW FOUNDATION INC$579,723
CITY OF MENASHA$557,140
APPLETON ALLIANCE CHURCH$521,000
ST PETER EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$402,500
HECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE$353,584
THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC$344,262
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION FOR THE DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY$337,184
YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES$319,458
ST FRANCIS XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL$291,702

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $20.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$175M · 486 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

486 repeat relationships — 344 still active in FY2024, 142 since wound down; 104 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

486

238

Total granted

$175M

$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+40%

Still filing today

69%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

TT
THE TROUT MUSEUM OF ART
7× · 2018–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +6163% · 98% of their budget
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY
7× · 2018–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +559%
RG
RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +12% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

GI
GRASSY ISLAND RANGE LIGHTS INC
one grant, 2018 · $2.6M · revenue -99%
DP
DE PERE HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +290%
RJ
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $900k · revenue +188%

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.

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Goodwill Industries of South Central

Help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services.

Employment

Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

Working to further restoration and conservation of wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources.

Environment

Westconsin Credit Union

To give members, communities, and one another the inspiration, resources, and support to achieve financial wellness.

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Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Waukesha County Community Foundation

A community foundation with endowment funds that provide grant support to charities.

Philanthropy

Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries

To provide healthcare for the elderly.

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Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension

To provide targeted consulting services to small and medium manufacturers within our service territory in wisconsin.

Education

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing funding for scholarships and grants and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement

United Way of Wisconsin Inc

To promote on a statewide basis the interests of the united way system and the voluntary sector, in order to maximize the capacity of local united ways to address human needs.

Philanthropy

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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community and the most unlike its peers is Westminster College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%7/828

the rest of the field

2,634/35,698

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

578 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

198

Early backer (in before they grew)

555/578

Grantees still filing

450/578

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$88,961,825Philanthropy$23,551,207Arts & Culture$22,784,746Human Services$22,412,743Education$11,813,953Health$10,775,087Housing & Shelter$10,314,123

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.

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.

J J Keller Foundation IncWI184.5× affinity117 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J J Keller Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch · Mielke Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Doug & Carla Salmon 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 organisation COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN SPORTS ADVANCEMENT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391708676 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN SPORTS ADVANCEMENT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Community Foundation for the Fox Valley?

Find your warmest path to Community Foundation for the Fox Valley through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

578 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation for the Fox Valley?

More from the funding graph

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

578 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Foundation for the Fox Valley?

More from the funding graph