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Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc
The community foundation of southern wisconsin, inc.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN 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 96 grants below total $3,241,944 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,783,877 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,541,933 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 $10k34 grants · $242k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $953k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $795k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLAGE OF NEW GLARUS | $795,429 |
| CITY OF LANCASTER | $212,725 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE | $195,324 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY | $125,750 |
| FISCC INC - FRIENDS OF THE WOODMAN'S CENTER | $122,036 |
| ROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $91,398 |
| COUNTY OF GREEN | $83,297 |
| VILLAGE OF BENTON | $71,201 |
| EVANSVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $68,170 |
| MONROE ARTS CENTER INC | $61,260 |
| GENERAL FEDERATION OF WOMENS CLUB | $60,000 |
| SWISS CENTER OF NORTH AMERICA INC | $55,030 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MONROE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION CENTER | $54,947 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC | $50,000 |
| SOUTHWEST OPPORTUNITIES CENTER INC | $49,335 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
130 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 16 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
- GIGOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +139% · 58% of their budget
- YOYMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $615k · revenue +31%
- RBROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $582k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- GRGRANT REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $118k · revenue -22%
- CFCAMDEN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $115k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $99k · revenue +773%
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.
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.
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…
The woman's club of wisconsin cultivates educational, cultural, philanthropic, and social exchange to inspire engagement in the community.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grant Regional Health Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bright Beginnings Preschool and Chi. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
149 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. 149 of the 238 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 GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Monroe Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds GFWC Monroe Womans Club ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING COMMUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK PRAIRIE MONTESSORI INC ↗
- Who funds FISCC INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Green County Family YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds GRANT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SWISS CENTER OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAPLE STREET KIDS DAYCARE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN WAYNE BIRTHPLACE SOCIETY ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Colony Brands Foundation Inc · Only in Wisconsin Giving Inc · Janesville Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Jpc Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · United Way Blackhawk Region Inc · Hendricks Family Foundation Inc · Kennedy Family Foundation Inc · Claremont S Jackman Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · United Way of Walworth County
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 Southern 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.
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 0% 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.