· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc
To inspire charitable giving by connecting people and resources to enhance central wisconsin now and for future generations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 48 grants below total $2,177,155 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,625,532 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $448,377 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $616k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $223k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA | $1,249,570 |
| MCCOMB BRUCHS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $102,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $68,536 |
| CITY OF STEVENS POINT | $52,619 |
| PORTAGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $49,019 |
| NICOLET COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $47,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC | $33,400 |
| OPERATION BOOTSTRAP | $28,462 |
| WAUSHARA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME | $25,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS | $25,000 |
| AMHERST AREA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $24,707 |
| FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION | $23,096 |
| CENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $677k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% 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 5% of Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin 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. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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
- SPSTEVENS POINT AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC FOUNDATIO8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue ×111 · 45% of their budget
- PCPORTAGE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +47% · 48% of their budget
- OBOPERATION BOOTSTRAP9× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- DDDelta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $89k · revenue +39%
- CPCELEBRATE PLOVER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -43% · 28% of their budget
- MTMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $52k
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The mission of the oshkosh area community foundation corporation is to strengthen our communities. the organization accomplishes this through: leadership and funding to address current and emerging needs; collaboration and partnership with…
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…
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
To receive and administer charitable endowment funds, to award grants to social, educational, scientific, religious and other charitable organizations in door county, wisconsin.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
Wisconsin community services advocates for justice and community safety, providing innovative opportunities for individuals to overcome adversity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Incourage Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future Foundation. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 122 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
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 STEVENS POINT AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BOOTSTRAP ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT ↗
- Who funds CAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEVENS POINT CURLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds McComb Bruchs Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAT CANCER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS STEVENS POINT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds NWI LIQUIDATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL RIVERS FARMSHED INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSHARA COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S CROSSING INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE PLOVER 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: Edward J Okray Foundation Inc · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Peters Family Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Wisconsin Inc · Seramur Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Noel Family Foundation Inc · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community 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 of Central Wisconsin 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.
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.