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Connexus Association Inc

The purpose of connexus association is to provide scholarships for education, to assist educational institutions and to provide financial literacy education to help borrowers and savers reach their financial goals. In a limited fashion, the association may also engage in any charitable activity recognized in I.r.c. 501(c)(3).

$193k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$144k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$33,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Connexus Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$144k0%
FY202311$137k18%
FY20229$116k11%
FY20219$125k11%
FY202012$183k8%
FY201919$284k53%
FY201812$272k42%
FY20179$94kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$986kHealth$141kYouth Development$66kInternational$60kArts & Culture$35kPhilanthropy$23kEmployment$23kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wausau School District$254,5688n/a
Northcentral Technical College Foundation Inc$210,00078%
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc$135,15081%
Aspirus Health Foundation Inc$116,46082%
DC Everest Education Foundation Inc$95,000724%
Mid-State Technical College$76,5005n/a
Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools$60,8095n/a
Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions Inc$60,00041%
Boyscouts of America 627 Samoset Council$38,50050%
Greenpath Inc$30,09640%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Connexus Association Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wausau School District$254,5688n/a
Northcentral Technical College Foundation Inc$210,00078%
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc$135,15081%
Aspirus Health Foundation Inc$116,46082%
DC Everest Education Foundation Inc$95,000724%
Mid-State Technical College$76,5005n/a
Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools$60,8095n/a
Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions Inc$60,00041%
Boyscouts of America 627 Samoset Council$38,50050%
Greenpath Inc$30,09640%
Filene Research Institute Inc$30,00030%
Stevens Point Area Public School District$30,0002n/a
Children's Imaginarium Inc$25,0001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$25,00020%
Wisconsin Automotive and Truck Education Association Inc$22,50032%
United Way of Marathon County Inc$22,50020%
National Credit Union Foundation$20,00020%
Wausau Breakfast Optimist Club$15,000215%
Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area Inc$12,95020%
Blessings in a Backpack Inc$10,00014%
Colossal Fossils Inc$10,000125%
University of Wisconsin$10,0001n/a
Wisconsin Credit Union Foundation Inc$8,50016%
Uw Wausau Campus Foundation Inc$8,00011%
Assumption High School$6,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$6,00010%
Pacelli Catholic Schools Inc$6,0001n/a
Center for Executive Excellence$5,5001n/a
Wisconsin Valley Lutheran High School Association Inc$5,0751n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Connexus Association Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthcentral Technical College Foundation Inc: $210,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc: $135,150 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAspirus Health Foundation Inc: $116,460 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetDC Everest Education Foundation Inc: $95,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetWorldwide Foundation for Credit Unions Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBoyscouts of America 627 Samoset Council: $38,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGreenpath Inc: $30,096 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFilene Research Institute Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Automotive and Truck Education Association Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUnited Way of Marathon County Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNational Credit Union Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWausau Breakfast Optimist Club: $15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area Inc: $12,950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetColossal Fossils Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWisconsin Credit Union Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetUw Wausau Campus Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 19.

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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.

Ba & Esther Greenheck FoundationWI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to Connexus Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Connexus Association Inc

How much does Connexus Association Inc give?
Connexus Association Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $144,450, out of $192,780 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Connexus Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Health (10%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are Connexus Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wausau School District ($255k), Northcentral Technical College Foundation Inc ($210k), Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc ($135k).
Does Connexus Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Connexus Association Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation, Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
Where is Connexus Association Inc based?
Connexus Association Inc is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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