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Community Foundation of Dunn County Inc

Our mission is to advance philanthropy in dunn county to improve the life of all our citizens, strengthen our nonprofit sector, and give back through strategic grantmaking and support for community projects.

$607k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$83k
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$632kEducation$412kFood & Nutrition$349kReligion$273kPublic Benefit$179kHousing & Shelter$110kCrime & Legal$98kPhilanthropy$81kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $486,953 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $606,558 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $119,605 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 $10k13 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $174k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $218k
$8,946
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUNN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES$82,619
OUR SAVIORS LUTHERAN CHURCH$75,500
CITY OF MENOMONIE$60,000
STEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY$35,015
ADORAY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE$35,000
LUTHERAN MEN IN MISSION$25,000
MABEL TAINTER THEATER$21,354
DUNN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,639
ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CONGREGATION$14,534
THE FREE CLINIC OF THE GREATER MENOMONIE AREA$14,165
MENOMONIE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$13,735
SHIRLEY DOANE SENIOR CENTER$8,946
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN NORTHWEST AREA$8,933
MENOMONIE PARKS & RECREATION INC$8,735
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN - INDIANHEAD AREA$8,735
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 (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INDIANHEAD ENTERPRISES OF MENOMONIE INC: $10k → 11%SHIRLEY DOANE SENIOR CENTER: $9k → 11%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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 27 repeat orgs$318k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
23

Total granted

$2.2M
$242k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

67%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEmploymentOther

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

  • SS
    STEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $246k · revenue +52%
  • SC
    ST CROIX VALLEY SHARED SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $156k · revenue +74%
  • TF
    The Free Clinic of the Greater Menomonie Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $119k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • OS
    OUR SAVIOR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH OF NEENAH WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • MY
    Menomonie Youth Hockey Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +37%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF DUNN COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -89%

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
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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2
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
3
Wisconsin Medical Credit Union

Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…

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4
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
5
Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc

To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.

Human Services
6
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
7
Southern Lakes Credit Union

We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.

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8
Wisconsin Health Information Organization Inc

The wisconsin health information organization maintains a centralized health care data repository to provide data and information on the quality, safety, cost, and equity of health care to all health care stakeholders for improvement,…

Health
9
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
10
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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11
Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Inc

To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.

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12
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

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…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr12%33%20–35yr18%26%35–55yr19%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr12%1%5–10yr21%6%10–20yr12%36%20–35yr18%41%35–55yr19%15%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
10%
73/730

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 59 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/39
Grantees still filing
20/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUNN COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING — $339,624 · OtherDUNN COUNTY OFFICE ON AGINGSTEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC — $245,887 · OtherSTEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INCCITY OF MENOMONIE — $217,000 · OtherCITY OF MENOMONIESCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE MENOMONIE AREA — $198,212 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE MENOMONIE AREAOUR SAVIORS LUTHERAN CHURCH — $110,750 · OtherOUR SAVIORS LUTHERAN CHURCHST JOSEPH CONGREGATION — $109,866 · OtherST JOSEPH CONGREGATIONMENOMONIE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $100,473 · OtherFEED MY PEOPLE INC — $88,829 · OtherTHE BRIDGE TO HOPE — $80,505 · Other+29 more — $460,721 · Other+29 moreST CROIX VALLEY SHARED SERVICES INC — $155,900 · HealthST CROIX VALLE…The Free Clinic of the Greater Menomonie Inc — $119,428 · HealthThe Free Clini…MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $19,980 · HealthMARSHFIELD CLI…+4 more — $23,000 · Health+4 moreMABEL TAINTER LITERARY LIBRARY AND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY INC — $45,254 · EducationLITERACY CHIPPEWA VALLEY — $17,750 · EducationUW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · EducationSummit Christian Academy Corp — $7,500 · EducationMENTOR CHIPPEWA INC — $5,100 · EducationINDIANHEAD ENTERPRISES OF MENOMONIE INC — $49,535 · Human ServicesMenomonie Area Senior Center — $8,946 · Human ServicesHOSPICE SUPPORT FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Human ServicesDunn County Humane Society Inc — $41,623 · AnimalsBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC — $17,125 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOSHUAS CAMP CORPORATION — $5,540 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DUNN COUNTY INC — $11,612 · PhilanthropyHOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,951,867Health$318,308Education$85,604Human Services$64,481Animals$41,623Youth Development$28,665Philanthropy$21,612

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 budgetSTEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC — $245,887 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY SHARED SERVICES INC — $155,900 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Free Clinic of the Greater Menomonie Inc — $119,428 over 7y, 21% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE INC — $88,829 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE TO HOPE — $80,505 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetINDIANHEAD ENTERPRISES OF MENOMONIE INC — $49,535 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDUNN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $48,838 over 4y, 10% of budgetMABEL TAINTER LITERARY LIBRARY AND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY INC — $45,254 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetRotary International Menomonie Rotary — $41,946 over 3y, 39% of budgetDunn County Humane Society Inc — $41,623 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetMenomonie Youth Hockey Association Inc — $29,825 over 1y, 11% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $19,980 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY CHIPPEWA VALLEY — $17,750 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC — $17,125 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DUNN COUNTY INC — $17,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $16,933 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC — $15,734 over 1y, 24% of budgetWORKFORCE RESOURCE INC — $15,485 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $12,126 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DUNN COUNTY INC — $11,612 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $10,279 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCONSIN CREDIT UNION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMenomonie Area Senior Center — $8,946 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC — $8,735 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS FROM THE HEART — $6,610 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE SUPPORT FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJOSHUAS CAMP CORPORATION — $5,540 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMENTOR CHIPPEWA INC — $5,100 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOLFAX HEALTH AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franc is — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Xcel Energy FoundationMayo Clinic Group Ret…Otto Bremer TrustThe Covia FoundationGreen Bay Packers Fou…Eau Claire Community …Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of the Gre…Annmarie Foundation I…Andersen Corporate Fo…The Jamf Nation Globa…Clarence Talen Charit…
Xcel Energy FoundationMN36.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Xcel Energy Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · The Covia Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Eau Claire Community Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc · Annmarie Foundation Inc · Andersen Corporate Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Clarence Talen Charitable Trust

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 Dunn County 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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