· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $144,450 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $192,780 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,330 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 $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT | $33,500 |
| NTC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL WI | $15,000 |
| DC EVEREST PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $12,500 |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WOOD & PORTAG | $10,000 |
| WATEA | $7,500 |
| WAUSAU BREAKFAST OPTIMIST CLUB | $7,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU ARE | $6,950 |
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 (FY17–21, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NTNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +19%
- AHASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +13%
- DEDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue ×16
Funded once
- CICHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -54%
- BIBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +125%
- CFColossal Fossils Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · 25% of their budget
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.
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
The waubonsee community college foundation was formed to advance the educational and charitable purposes of waubonsee community college. the primary objective of the foundation is to raise funds for student scholarships and educational…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
Promote and facilitate services to wisconsin's private nonprofit colleges and universities.
To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.
Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…
To promote more equitable and resilient communities through financial inclusion powered by credit unions and financial cooperatives.
We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
The wisconsin technical college system (wtcs) foundation, inc., seeks to advance the wisconsin technical college system, its constituent technical colleges and public and private sector career, technical and workplace education. the…
Credit union national association, inc. d/b/a america's credit unions is a national trade association for credit unions organized to support, protect, unify, and advance the goals and purposes of the credit union system. it provides…
A cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide opportunity for its members to improve their economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Credit Union Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dc Everest Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 30 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
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 NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GREENPATH INC ↗
- Who funds FILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN AUTOMOTIVE AND TRUCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU BREAKFAST OPTIMIST CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Colossal Fossils Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UW WAUSAU CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · The Macdonald Foundation · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Paul & Ruth Schultz Fdn Agy
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 Connexus Association 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.
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.
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