Wisconsin · Community foundation
Community Foundation of Chippewa Co
To enable donors to achieve their philanthropic goals, to meet changing community needs, thereby benefiting the communities, people and other nonprofit organizations of chippewa county.
- $681k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $479k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,539
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $71,814
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $37M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Community Foundation of Chippewa Co funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 33 | $479k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $258k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $217k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $279k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $234k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $211k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $161k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $130k | 22% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chippewa Falls Parks Rec Forestry | $442,748 | 9 | n/a |
| McDonell High School Foundation Inc | $223,160 | 9 | 7% |
| McDonell Area Catholic Schools | $201,092 | 9 | n/a |
| Chippewa County Humane Association | $167,657 | 9 | 7% |
| Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District Foundation Inc | $85,375 | 7 | 19% |
| Chippewa County Historical Society Inc | $83,063 | 9 | 12% |
| First United Presbyterian Church | $71,641 | 9 | 80% |
| Chippewa Falls Music Association Ltd | $59,198 | 7 | 48% |
| Hospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc | $56,428 | 7 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc | $53,101 | 5 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Chippewa Co supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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: Edward and Hannah M Rutledge Charities Inc · United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc · Eau Claire Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Rcu Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ba Mason Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Casper Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of Chippewa Co with peer funders
About Community Foundation of Chippewa Co
- How much does Community Foundation of Chippewa Co give?
- Community Foundation of Chippewa Co reported 34 itemized grants totaling $479,485, out of $680,939 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of Chippewa Co fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Health (11%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Chippewa Co's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chippewa Falls Parks Rec Forestry ($443k), McDonell High School Foundation Inc ($223k), McDonell Area Catholic Schools ($201k).
- Does Community Foundation of Chippewa Co fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Chippewa Co?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward and Hannah M Rutledge Charities Inc, United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc, Eau Claire Community Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation of Chippewa Co based?
- Community Foundation of Chippewa Co is based in WI.
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