· Public charity
Covantage Cares Foundation Inc
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes by providing financial assistance to individuals, especially those experiencing significant financial challenge, and to organizations working to enhance the quality of life of residents living in the communities served by covantage credit union.
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 13 grants below total $572,968 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $749,828 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $176,860 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 · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTIGO AREA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC | $118,378 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CRYSTAL FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $92,342 |
| SAM25 (SHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25) | $70,414 |
| HODAG10S INC | $65,215 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA | $58,952 |
| ELCHO SCHOOL DISTRICT | $48,178 |
| VFW POST 3134 | $44,622 |
| CRANDON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $22,706 |
| JAKES NETWORK OF HOPE (JAKES DIAPERS INC) | $14,835 |
| NAMI PORTAGE AND WOOD COUNTIES | $13,809 |
| UP FOSTER CLOSET OF MENOMINEE COUNTY | $8,517 |
| ANTIGO AREA RECREATION FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF LANGLADE COUNTY | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k 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
- UWUnited Way of Langlade County Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +53% · 84% of their budget
- AAAntigo Area Community Food Pantry4× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +23% · 32% of their budget
- SASHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC2× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +377% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- FLFORTUNE LAKE LUTHERAN CAMP ASSOC INCone grant, 2022 · $219k
- LLLOCKER LUNCH INCone grant, 2020 · $148k
- COCASA OF THE FOX CITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $126k · revenue +63% · 31% 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.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Helping families and individuals experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence.
The Hope Center seeks out and teams with volunteers from congregations of many faiths.The Center is committed to serving people in need in Waukesha County, Wisconsin through financial assistance, food, child care, clothing and…
To supply food to the under privileged.
Food Pantry - to provide nutritious food to people in need. Also, to provide used clothing and backpacks for school children and to provide energy assistance outreach site.
Baraboo area homeless shelter works to provide shelter and comprehensive case management services to persons experiencing homelessness in baraboo, wisconsin and the surrounding area.
To provide shelter to the homeless community in merrill wi
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.
Provide emergency food assistance to needy individuals in Milwaukee.
Mission is to provide food to in need families of otsego county as well as weekend food to in need children
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors Place Inc the and the most unlike its peers is Dar Boys & Girls Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 79 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 United Way of Langlade County Inc ↗
- Who funds Antigo Area Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds LOCKER LUNCH INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP BATAWAGAMA ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds Crystal Theatre ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OTTAWA POST 3134 ↗
- Who funds Crandon Area Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABUNDANT LIFE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Hmong American Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ELCHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds IRON AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE IN LANGLADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS ALLIANCE FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING INC ↗
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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Abbybank Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Covantage Credit Union
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 Covantage Cares Foundation 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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