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.

Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc

Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc

The community foundation of southern wisconsin, inc.

$4.8M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$795k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 96 grants below total $3,241,944, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,783,877 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,541,933 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $242k
$10k–50k48 grants · $953k
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
$250k+1 grant · $795k

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$105M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$19M · 130 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

130

Total granted

$19M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+1%

Still filing today

59%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

GI
GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +139% · 58% of their budget
YO
YMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $615k · revenue +31%
RB
ROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $582k · revenue +20%

Funded once

GR
GRANT REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $118k · revenue -22%
CF
CAMDEN FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $115k
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $99k · revenue +773%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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Markesan Historical Society

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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

Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc

The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.

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Woman's Club of Wisconsin

The woman's club of wisconsin cultivates educational, cultural, philanthropic, and social exchange to inspire engagement in the community.

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Landmark Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment

Waukesha County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin

Environment

Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members

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Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc

The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.

Arts & Culture

Rock River Repertory Theatre

Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grant Regional Health Center Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

149 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

145/149

Grantees still filing

90/149

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$14,148,672Human Services$2,368,905Arts & Culture$1,404,185Environment$692,071Animals$640,778Philanthropy$612,689Community Improvement$583,289

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI80.6× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

34report 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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home