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Cooperative Educational Service Agency 6

Provide education and support services to lea's and other entities.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$326k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$21MCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $1,853,773, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,910,384 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,611 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 $10k18 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $578k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $815k
  • $250k+1 grant · $326k
$18,437
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INSPIRE WISCONSIN INC: $9k → 5%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HILBERT: $7k → 6%KEWASKUM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $57k → 6%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SEYMOUR: $18k → 7%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HORICON: $7k → 9%RIPON AREA SCHOL DISTRICT: $25k → 9%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF SHEBOYGAN FALLS: $19k → 9%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WEST DE PERE: $22k → 10%MARKESAN DISTRICT SCHOOLS: $12k → 11%MANITOWOC PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $195k → 11%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WAUPACA: $34k → 11%WINNECONNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $7k → 11%BOWLER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7k → 11%LAONA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $8k → 14%WAUTOMA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $8k → 15%CHILTON PUBLIC SCHOOL: $16k → 6%SLINGER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $94k → 6%APPLETON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $64k → 7%MAYVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 9%WAUPUN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $44k → 9%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF CEDAR GROVE: $8k → 9%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF DE PERE: $17k → 10%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PRINCETON: $7k → 11%TWO RIVERS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30k → 11%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF OSHKOSH: $61k → 11%BERLIN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $29k → 15%MENASHA JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40k → 6%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF WEST BEND: $65k → 6%LITTLE CHUTE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $24k → 7%FOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $130k → 9%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HOWARDS GROVE: $7k → 9%UNIFIED SCHOOL DSITRICT OF DE PERE: $17k → 10%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MISHICOT: $16k → 11%SCHOOL DISTIRCT OF NEW LONDON: $27k → 11%NEENAH JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $78k → 11%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF CRANDON: $7k → 14%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BRILLION: $10k → 6%HORTONVILLE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18k → 7%BEAVER DAM UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $70k → 9%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF OAKFIELD: $21k → 9%DENMARK SCHOOL DISTRICT: $29k → 10%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF OMRO: $9k → 11%NEW HOLSTEIN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7k → 6%KAUKAUNA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $35k → 7%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NORTH FOND: $9k → 9%FREEDOM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $22k → 7%CAMPBELLSPORT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 9%SCHOOL DSITRICT OF KIMBERLY: $32k → 7%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 field
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6: $19,354,509 · EducationCOOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6MANITOWOC PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $195,291 · OtherFOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $130,176 · OtherSLINGER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $94,457 · OtherNEENAH JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $78,494 · OtherBEAVER DAM UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $70,061 · OtherWEST BEND JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT 1: $65,000 · OtherThrivent Member Network - Rocky Mountain: $64,250 · OtherOSHKOSH AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $60,735 · OtherKEWASKUM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $56,589 · Other+40 more: $703,589 · OtherINSPIRE WISCONSIN INC: $9,243 · Community Improvement
Education$19,354,509Other$1,518,642Community Improvement$9,243

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6: $19,354,509 over 9y, 14% of budgetINSPIRE WISCONSIN INC: $9,243 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

  • Who funds COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AGENCY 6 ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRE WISCONSIN INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Project Lead the Way …Oshkosh Area Communit…Fond Du Lac Area Foun…Greater Green Bay Com…For Inspiration and R…Share Our StrengthFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI36.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cooperative Educational Service Agency 6 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cooperative Educational Service Agency 6. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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