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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.

$193k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$986kHealth$141kYouth Development$66kInternational$60kArts & Culture$35kPhilanthropy$23kEmployment$23kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $144,450, the rows itemized in this filing. The $192,780 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,330 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WOOD & PORTAG$10,000
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
WATEA$7,500
WAUSAU BREAKFAST OPTIMIST CLUB$7,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU ARE$6,950
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%GREENPATH: $8k → 8%GREENPATH: $8k → 8%GREENPATH: $8k → 8%GREENPATH: $7k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 18 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
11

Total granted

$1.3M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+46%

Still filing today

78%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NT
    NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +19%
  • AH
    ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +13%
  • DE
    DC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue ×16

Funded once

  • CI
    CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -54%
  • BI
    BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +285%
  • CF
    Colossal Fossils Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · 25% of their budget
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.

1
Westconsin Credit Union

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…

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2
Waubonsee Community College Foundation

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…

Education
3
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
4
Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

Promote and facilitate services to wisconsin's private nonprofit colleges and universities.

Education
5
Wisconsin Council On Economic Education Inc

To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.

Social Science
6
Waukesha County Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
7
World Council of Credit Unions Inc

To promote more equitable and resilient communities through financial inclusion powered by credit unions and financial cooperatives.

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8
Wisconsin Bankers Association

We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.

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9
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

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…

Education
10
Wisconsin Technical College System Foundation Inc

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…

Education
11
Credit Union National Association Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Covantage Credit Union

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Credit Union Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $254,568 · OtherWAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICTNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $76,500 · OtherMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGEWISCONSIN RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $60,809 · OtherWISCONSIN RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLSBOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL: $38,500 · OtherSTEVENS POINT AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30,000 · OtherFILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · Other+9 more: $90,525 · Other+9 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $135,150 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEME…WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC: $60,000 · InternationalWORLDWIDE FOUNDA…ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $116,460 · HealthASPIRUS HEA…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CA…DC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · EducationDC EVEREST …WISCONSIN AUTOMOTIVE AND TRUCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 · EducationWISCONSIN A…WISCONSIN CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · EducationWISCONSIN C…UW WAUSAU CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · EducationUW WAUSAU C…UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGREENPATH INC: $30,096 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureColossal Fossils Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$790,902International$195,150Health$141,460Education$134,000Philanthropy$37,500Human Services$36,096Arts & Culture$35,000

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

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

Ba & Esther Greenheck…Church Mutual Insuran…Green Bay Packers Fou…Dwight and Linda Davi…Judd S Alexander Foun…Incrediblebank Founda…George Kress Foundati…Woodtrust Charitable …Bell Family Charitabl…The Macdonald Foundat…Abbybank Foundation I…Paul & Ruth Schultz F…
Ba & Esther Greenheck FoundationWI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Connexus Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connexus Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Connexus Association Inc?

    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.

    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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