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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 FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$514kRecreation & Sports$436kHealth$228kArts & Culture$186kAnimals$168kHuman Services$166kReligion$126kFood & Nutrition$83kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $479,485 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $680,939 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $201,454 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 $10k24 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
$8,539
Median grant
2
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHIPPEWA FALLS PARKS REC FORESTRY$71,814
MCDONELL AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$51,198
CHIPPEWA FALLS AREA UNIFIED SCHOOL$43,968
FAMILY HEALTH CENTER - MARSHFIELD$34,160
MCDONELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$27,835
DOVE HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO$25,000
CHIPPEWA COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION$24,269
CHIPPEWA FALLS MUSIC ASSOCIATION$11,815
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHIPPE$10,313
KIDS FOOD BASKET$10,000
ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC CHURCH$9,977
YMCA OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY$9,389
CHIPPEWA VALLEY HEALTH COOPERATIVE$9,166
CHIPPEWA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$9,089
OUR NAWAKWA INC$8,652
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $6k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WI & MI: $7k → 17%DOVE HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $25k → 12%YMCA OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY: $14k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $10k → 10%YMCA OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY: $9k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN & UPPER MICHIGAN: $9k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $9k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $9k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $8k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $6k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN & UPPER MICHIGAN: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Community Foundation of Chippewa Co’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, 99% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Community Foundation of Chippewa Colessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 27 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
8

Total granted

$1.9M
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

81%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MH
    MCDONELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +191%
  • CC
    CHIPPEWA COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +79%
  • CF
    CHIPPEWA FALLS AREA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • MC
    MARSHFIELD CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue -11%
  • SJ
    St Joseph's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franc is
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue -92%
  • DM
    DR MOON MEMORIAL LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

1
Chippewa Health Access Coalition

The organization was formed for the purpose of providing access to quality health care for uninsured residents of chippewa, luce and mackinac counties of michigan by coordinating health care providers.

Health
2
Chippewa County Family Project Inc

To facilitate, coordinate and promote safe, nurturing, home-like care for residents placed for foster care and for any other charitable and educational purposes related to promoting well-being of children in foster care.

Human Services
3
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.

Philanthropy
4
Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc

To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.

Environment
5
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
6
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
7
Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association Inc

To improve health through the work of community health centers and their partners.

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8
Community Health Accreditation Program Inc

Advance the highest quality of home and community-based care.

Health
9
Childrens House Montessori School Inc

Educational child care

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10
United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

We improve lives and build stronger chippewa valley communities by bringing resources together to advance the common good.

Philanthropy
11
Chippewa County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect and preserve natural and scenic land in chippewa county and the surrounding area.

Environment
12
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chippewa Valley Health Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chippewa Falls Music Association Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%11%<5yr11%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr17%32%35–55yr20%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr11%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr14%8%20–35yr17%51%35–55yr20%28%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
9%
82/889

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

34 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. 34 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHIPPEWA FALLS PARKS REC FORESTRY — $442,748 · OtherCHIPPEWA FALLS PARKS REC FORESTRYMCDONELL AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — $201,092 · OtherMCDONELL AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSCHIPPEWA FALLS AREA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC — $85,375 · OtherCHIPPEWA FALLS AREA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INCCHIPPEWA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $83,063 · OtherCHIPPEWA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCFIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $71,641 · OtherFIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+21 more — $289,507 · Other+21 moreMCDONELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $223,160 · EducationMCDONELL HIGH…LITERACY CHIPPEWA VALLEY — $12,763 · Education+1 more — $6,409 · EducationHospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc — $56,428 · HealthHospital Si…FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF MARSHFIELD INC — $51,141 · HealthFAMILY HEAL…THE OPEN DOOR CLINIC INC — $25,316 · HealthTHE OPEN DO…PROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS INC — $20,500 · HealthPROFESSIONA…CHIPPEWA VALLEY HEALTH CLINIC INC — $17,500 · HealthCHIPPEWA VA…MARSHFIELD CLINIC INC — $17,300 · HealthMARSHFIELD …St Joseph's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franc is — $17,300 · HealthSt Joseph's…Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative — $9,166 · HealthCHIPPEWA COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $167,657 · AnimalsCHIPPEWA …FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $50,918 · Human ServicesDOVE HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY — $23,830 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC — $21,479 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR WESTERN WISCONSIN INC — $5,816 · Human ServicesCHIPPEWA FALLS MUSIC ASSOCIATION LTD — $59,198 · Arts & CultureCHIPPEWA VALLEY CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC — $38,732 · Arts & CultureCHIPPEWA AREA HISTORY CENTER INC — $5,321 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC — $53,101 · Youth Development
Other$1,173,426Education$242,332Health$214,651Animals$167,657Human Services$127,043Arts & Culture$103,251Youth Development$53,101

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMCDONELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $223,160 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetCHIPPEWA COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION — $167,657 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetCHIPPEWA FALLS AREA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC — $85,375 over 7y, 19% of budgetCHIPPEWA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $83,063 over 9y, 12% of budgetFIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $71,641 over 9y, 80% of budgetCHIPPEWA FALLS MUSIC ASSOCIATION LTD — $59,198 over 7y, 48% of budgetHospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc — $56,428 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC — $53,101 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF MARSHFIELD INC — $51,141 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $50,918 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC — $38,732 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE INC — $37,320 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHIPPEWA FALLS AREA SENIOR CENTER INC — $33,090 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetHOPE VILLAGE - TINY HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC — $25,653 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CLINIC INC — $25,316 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY — $23,830 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLE PHILLIPS CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $22,120 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC — $21,479 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAGNES TABLE AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $20,600 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPROFESSIONAL DENTAL HYGIENE EXPRESS INC — $20,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY HEALTH CLINIC INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC INC — $17,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franc is — $17,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $13,815 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY CHIPPEWA VALLEY — $12,763 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERITAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC — $6,409 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR WESTERN WISCONSIN INC — $5,816 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHIPPEWA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $5,738 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

Edward and Hannah M R…United Way of the Gre…Eau Claire Community …Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Otto Bremer TrustThe Jamf Nation Globa…Rcu Foundation IncGreen Bay Packers Fou…Ba Mason TrustXcel Energy FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…The Casper Foundation
Edward and Hannah M Rutledge Charities IncWI32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Chippewa Co 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    9report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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