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Cooperative Educational Service Agency 6
Provide education and support services to lea's and other entities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 52 grants below total $1,853,773 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,910,384 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,611 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $578k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $815k
- $250k+1 grant · $326k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTHER VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS | $325,888 |
| MANITOWOC PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $195,291 |
| FOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $130,176 |
| SLINGER SCHOOL DISTRICT | $94,457 |
| NEENAH JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $78,494 |
| BEAVER DAM UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $70,061 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WEST BEND | $65,000 |
| APPLETON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $64,250 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF OSHKOSH | $60,735 |
| KEWASKUM SCHOOL DISTRICT | $56,589 |
| WAUPUN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $43,549 |
| MENASHA JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $39,896 |
| KAUKAUNA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $34,793 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WAUPACA | $34,467 |
| SCHOOL DSITRICT OF KIMBERLY | $32,299 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of your 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.
2 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. 2 of the 51 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.
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: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Share Our Strength · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Cooperative Educational Service Agency 6 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.