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Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc
We strengthen our community for current and future generations by helping people make a difference in the lives of all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 448 grants below total $32,366,247 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,018,235 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,651,988 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k88 grants · $619k
- $10k–50k234 grants · $5.3M
- $50k–250k108 grants · $11M
- $250k+18 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $20.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
491 repeat relationships — 337 still active in FY2024, 154 since wound down; 97 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- TMTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue ×53 · 98% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +559%
- RGRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +10% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
- GIGrassy Island Range Lights Incone grant, 2018 · $2.6M · revenue -99%
- DPDE PERE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +2%
- DCDOOR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -50% · 66% of their budget
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 34 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
611 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. 611 of the 864 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOLDT FAMILY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS INC ↗
- Who funds HECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grassy Island Range Lights Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF APPLETON LIBRARY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VETERAN'S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATALPA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUTAGAMIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 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: J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Corporation 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 Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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.