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Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc
The community foundation of southern wisconsin, inc. Is a tax-exempt not-for-profit philanthropic granting organization that matches personal philanthropy with community needs through grants and scholarships from endowed and non-endowed funds. The community foundation of southern wisconsin has been recognized as meeting the highest…
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 96
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 105
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $795,429
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 105
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $105M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $613k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 94 | $3.2M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 105 | $2.6M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 75 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $2.1M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $2.7M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 75 | $1.7M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 77 | $2.3M | 48% |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$6.1MArts & Culture$2.3MHuman Services$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.1MCommunity Improvement$960kHealth$848kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| God Is Faithful Temporary Shelter Inc | $1,384,444 | 8 | 58% |
| City of Milton | $1,345,459 | 5 | n/a |
| City of Janesville | $1,060,485 | 6 | n/a |
| Village of New Glarus | $886,304 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Lancaster | $849,866 | 9 | n/a |
| YMCA of Northern Rock County Inc | $614,927 | 9 | 12% |
| Rotary Botanical Gardens Inc | $581,601 | 9 | 8% |
| Monroe Arts Center Inc | $545,785 | 9 | 14% |
| Lancaster Community Schools | $540,484 | 9 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Janesville Inc | $487,821 | 9 | 8% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| God Is Faithful Temporary Shelter Inc | $1,384,444 | 8 | 58% |
| City of Milton | $1,345,459 | 5 | n/a |
| City of Janesville | $1,060,485 | 6 | n/a |
| Village of New Glarus | $886,304 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Lancaster | $849,866 | 9 | n/a |
| YMCA of Northern Rock County Inc | $614,927 | 9 | 12% |
| Rotary Botanical Gardens Inc | $581,601 | 9 | 8% |
| Monroe Arts Center Inc | $545,785 | 9 | 14% |
| Lancaster Community Schools | $540,484 | 9 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Janesville Inc | $487,821 | 9 | 8% |
| City of Platteville | $487,449 | 6 | n/a |
| GFWC Monroe Womans Club | $455,000 | 9 | 75% |
| School District of Monroe WI | $411,735 | 8 | n/a |
| The Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin Inc | $395,673 | 3 | 7% |
| Healthnet of Rock County Inc | $318,964 | 9 | 3% |
| Inspiring Communty Inc | $303,047 | 7 | 23% |
| Adrc of Green County | $277,576 | 8 | n/a |
| City of Monroe | $268,846 | 9 | n/a |
| School District of Janesville | $261,334 | 9 | n/a |
| Rock Prairie Montessori Inc | $224,917 | 9 | 2% |
| Parkview School District | $224,781 | 7 | n/a |
| Fiscc Inc | $224,036 | 2 | 25% |
| Lancaster Public Library Foundation Inc | $221,167 | 6 | 57% |
| Green County Family YMCA Inc | $208,425 | 9 | 2% |
| Village of Benton | $206,246 | 3 | n/a |
| Grant County Humane Society Inc | $194,331 | 2 | 17% |
| Swiss Center of North America Inc | $175,711 | 4 | 34% |
| Everyone Cooperating to Help Others Inc | $174,615 | 9 | 1% |
| Childrens Museum of Rock County Inc | $166,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Maple Street Kids Daycare Inc | $149,375 | 4 | 23% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $140,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St John Vianney | $136,578 | 7 | n/a |
| Good Shepherd Lutheran Church | $135,000 | 9 | n/a |
| United Way Blackhawk Region Inc | $130,600 | 8 | 2% |
| Hedberg Public Library | $129,730 | 6 | n/a |
| Argyle School District | $127,866 | 9 | n/a |
| Evansville Community School District | $127,763 | 8 | n/a |
| Grant Regional Health Center Foundation Inc | $118,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Camden Foundation Inc | $115,328 | 1 | n/a |
| John Wayne Birthplace Society | $115,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Kandu Industries Inc | $112,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Camp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Janesville Performing Arts Center Inc | $109,429 | 8 | 4% |
| Platteville Library Foundation Inc | $105,243 | 5 | 43% |
| Village of Argyle | $103,678 | 5 | n/a |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Rock County Inc | $102,006 | 7 | 1% |
| City of Evansville | $101,981 | 7 | n/a |
| Forward Foundation Inc | $101,666 | 3 | 3% |
| Green County Historical Society | $100,176 | 5 | 41% |
| St Clement Parish - Lancaster Wi | $99,650 | 7 | n/a |
| Platteville Mainstreet Program | $98,962 | 6 | 5% |
| Community Foundation of South Central Wisconsin Inc | $98,853 | 1 | 18% |
| The Arc - Green County Inc | $91,509 | 7 | n/a |
| Turner Hall of Monroe Inc | $87,085 | 6 | 12% |
| Community Action Inc of Rock & Walworth Counties | $83,625 | 7 | 0% |
| Shullsburg School District | $83,550 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Shullsburg | $83,413 | 3 | n/a |
| St John's United Church of Christ | $81,723 | 8 | n/a |
| Agrace HospiceCare Inc | $80,051 | 5 | 0% |
| Grant County Historical Society | $79,666 | 4 | 30% |
| Darlington Community School District | $79,552 | 8 | n/a |
| St William Catholic Church | $69,800 | 8 | n/a |
| Southwest Opportunities Center Inc | $62,007 | 3 | 0% |
| Family Services of Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Inc | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lancaster Association of Churches Inc | $60,089 | 3 | 47% |
| Wisconsin VFW Foundation Inc | $59,992 | 2 | 4% |
| Milton College Preservation Society Inc | $58,407 | 7 | 41% |
| Green-Rock Audubon Society Inc | $57,945 | 2 | 11% |
| Foundation for the Preservation of 108 South Jackson St | $56,475 | 7 | 16% |
| Pecatonica Area School District | $55,810 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $54,367 | 4 | 0% |
| Platteville School District | $51,288 | 6 | n/a |
| St Mary's Janesville Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Burlington Community Fund Ltd | $50,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Advance Shullsburg Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 35% |
| Historic Cooksville Trust Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Wisconsin Badger Camp Inc | $49,281 | 5 | 2% |
| Yerkes Future Foundation Inc | $48,667 | 1 | 1% |
| Mineral Point Opera House Inc | $48,375 | 3 | 6% |
| Monroe Clinic and Hospital Foundation | $47,746 | 6 | 3% |
| United Way of Green County Inc | $46,340 | 3 | 4% |
| Girls on the Run of South Central Wisconsin Incorporated | $46,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Lybsa | $45,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Diocese of Madisonfoundation Inc | $45,167 | 2 | n/a |
| Platteville Community Arboretum Inc | $44,400 | 3 | 55% |
| Hillsboro School DiStrict | $43,970 | 7 | n/a |
| Couleecap Inc | $43,872 | 4 | 0% |
| New Glarus School District | $43,264 | 4 | n/a |
| Chicago Adventure Therapy Nfp | $42,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Milton Community Action Group Inc | $42,082 | 2 | 10% |
| Ag Business Council of Rock County Inc | $41,440 | 1 | n/a |
| St Clare of Assisi Congregation Green County Wi Inc | $40,565 | 3 | n/a |
| New York Women in Film & Television Inc | $40,025 | 2 | 1% |
| Lancaster Fire Department Fund Inc | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Gathering Place of Milton Inc | $39,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Mineral Point High School | $38,864 | 3 | n/a |
| Rock County Historical Society Inc | $37,979 | 4 | 1% |
| Salvation Army National Corp | $37,000 | 4 | n/a |
| North Crawford School District | $36,916 | 3 | n/a |
| Lancaster EMS Inc | $36,520 | 3 | 5% |
| Iowa-Grant School District | $36,460 | 6 | n/a |
| Fellow Mortals Inc | $35,774 | 5 | 1% |
| Rolling Hills Church of Platteville Wisconsin | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Milton Historical Society | $33,600 | 3 | 9% |
| Edgerton Local Schools | $31,233 | 3 | n/a |
| Jamison Museum Association Inc | $30,149 | 4 | 8% |
| Milton School District | $30,130 | 4 | n/a |
| Jaycees of Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Village of Benton | $29,960 | 3 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation Inc | $28,410 | 3 | 0% |
| Benton School District | $28,302 | 5 | n/a |
| Seniors United for Nutrition Program Inc | $27,910 | 4 | 1% |
| Black Hawk School District | $27,739 | 3 | n/a |
| Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc | $26,526 | 3 | 0% |
| Union Presbyterian Church | $26,150 | 3 | n/a |
| Rainbow Childcare of Monroe Inc | $25,304 | 3 | 1% |
| Bethany Home | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Green County Development Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Monticello School District | $24,083 | 2 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc | $23,750 | 4 | 3% |
| Jacobs Swag Foundation Inc | $23,650 | 3 | 17% |
| Casa of Rock County Inc | $22,200 | 3 | 2% |
| The Johns Hopkins Hospital | $21,700 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc | $20,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Rock Valley Community Programs Inc | $20,235 | 2 | 0% |
| Rock Trail Coalition | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fennimore Rural Fire Dept Inc | $18,995 | 1 | 7% |
| Fennimore Volunteer Fire Department | $18,995 | 1 | 26% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $18,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Womans Club Association | $18,495 | 3 | n/a |
| Family Promise of Green County Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Pregnancy Helpline and Resource Center of Janesville Inc | $17,950 | 3 | 8% |
| Monroe Theatre Guild Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 9% |
| Project 1649 Inc | $17,250 | 2 | 2% |
| Platteville Chorale Inc C/O Platteville Chorale | $17,100 | 3 | n/a |
| Micah Project Ltd | $17,037 | 2 | n/a |
| Grant Regional Health Center Inc | $16,995 | 2 | 0% |
| National Historic Cheesemaking | $16,818 | 2 | 13% |
| The Time Is Now to Help Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rock County Human Services Department | $15,923 | 2 | n/a |
| Merrimac and Main Center Inc | $15,450 | 1 | n/a |
| First Lutheran Church | $15,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Wisconsin - Badgerland Council Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Green County Humane Society | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Habitat for Humanity in Walworth County Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Janesville Youth Baseball and Softball Association Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Village of Gays Mills | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scholarships for Technical and Recognized Training | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Emory University | $14,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Iowa County Social Services | $14,120 | 1 | n/a |
| THE PRAIRIE ENTHUSIASTs INC | $13,750 | 1 | 1% |
| Tri-County Community Center Inc | $13,288 | 2 | 10% |
| Glacier's Edge Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $13,250 | 1 | 1% |
| No Limits Lda | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Mercy Health System Corporation | $12,156 | 2 | 0% |
| PTA Wisconsin Congress | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Old World Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Rock Aqua Jays Water Ski Club Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Friends of Winskill PTO Inc | $11,413 | 1 | 13% |
| Argyle Area Food Pantry | $11,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Tree House Child and Family Center Inc | $11,150 | 2 | 3% |
| U-W Center-Rock County Association Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Uw-Whitewater Foundation Inc | $10,700 | 1 | 0% |
| First Congregational United Church of Christ | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Eager Free Public Library | $10,459 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Walworth County | $10,189 | 1 | 1% |
| Rock Prairie Presbyterian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Forum-Myha Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beyond Borders Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Upland Hills Health Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Embolden Wi Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Home of Our Own Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Inhealth Community Wellness | $10,000 | 1 | 17% |
| New Beginnings Apfv Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Viroqua Area Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Allamakee New Beginnings | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ridges and Rivers Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 15% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Monroe Public Library Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Rock County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| For Petes Sake Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shullsburg Miners Athletic Boosters | $9,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Blackhawk Area Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc | $9,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Janesville Lions Foundation | $9,333 | 1 | n/a |
| Mineral Point Historical Society Inc | $9,125 | 1 | 21% |
| Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest Inc | $8,724 | 1 | n/a |
| Green County Food Pantry Inc | $8,703 | 1 | 4% |
| Village of Lena | $8,625 | 1 | n/a |
| Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc | $8,125 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Cuba City | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blackhawk Technical College Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Janesville Community Center Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 10% |
| Elkhorn Area School District | $7,380 | 1 | n/a |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fowler Memorial Free Dental Clinic | $7,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mineral Point Railroad Society Inc | $6,836 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic Argyle Inc | $6,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Christmas for Kids Southwest Wi Inc | $6,750 | 1 | 39% |
| Lancaster Wrestling Club Inc | $6,750 | 1 | 14% |
| Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin Inc | $6,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Juda School District | $6,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilhelm Tell Community Guild | $6,549 | 1 | n/a |
| New Glarus Historical Society Inc | $6,490 | 1 | 23% |
| Caring for Kids Inc | $6,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Women in Aviation International | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Our Gallery-Fog | $6,274 | 1 | n/a |
| Platteville Area Senior Services Company | $6,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Hoos Woods Raptor Center | $6,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Crawford Stewardship Project Ltd | $5,958 | 1 | n/a |
| J12 24 Seeds of Hope Inc | $5,875 | 1 | 2% |
| Blanchardville EMS | $5,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Evansville Grove Society Inc | $5,659 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Methods in Learning Equine Skills Inc | $5,577 | 1 | 1% |
| Walworth County Food Pantry Inc | $5,528 | 1 | 0% |
| Platteville Fire Department Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Main Street Monroe Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Bright Beginnings Preschool and Chi | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bridging Brighter Smiles Inc | $5,262 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $5,247 | 1 | n/a |
| Open Arms Free Clinic Inc | $5,200 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Edgerton | $5,094 | 1 | n/a |
| Monroe United Methodist Church | $5,014 | 1 | n/a |
| College of Saint Benedict | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lena Community Trust Fund Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Geneva Lakes Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beloit College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prevent Blindness Wisconsin | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Luther College | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $1,080 | 1 | n/a |
| Carroll University Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 140 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 140.
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.
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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About Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc
- How much does Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc give?
- Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc reported 96 itemized grants totaling $3,241,944, out of $4,783,877 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 105 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (11%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: God Is Faithful Temporary Shelter Inc ($1.4M), City of Milton ($1.3M), City of Janesville ($1.1M).
- Does Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Colony Brands Foundation Inc, Only in Wisconsin Giving Inc.
- Where is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc based?
- Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc is based in WI.
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