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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.

$750k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$484kFood & Nutrition$470kRecreation & Sports$437kPhilanthropy$418kHousing & Shelter$372kArts & Culture$275kYouth Development$244kPublic Safety & Disaster$189kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $572,968, the rows itemized in this filing. The $749,828 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $176,860 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 · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $405k
$44,622
Median grant
2
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNITED WAY OF LANGLADE COUNTY$7,500
ANTIGO AREA RECREATION FOUNDATION$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JAKES NETWORK OF HOPE (JAKES DIAPERS INC): $15k → 6%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $46k → 7%SAM25 (SHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25): $70k → 11%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHWOODS INC (YMCA): $105k → 12%COMMUNITY BENEFIT TREE INC: $21k → 7%EVERGREEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $18k → 10%FORGET ME NOT FUND INC: $6k → 10%SHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC: $53k → 11%ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE INC: $45k → 10%AVAIL: $32k → 12%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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 13 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
55

Total granted

$1.0M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

92%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k 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
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHealthYouth 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

  • UW
    United Way of Langlade County Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +53% · 84% of their budget
  • AA
    Antigo Area Community Food Pantry
    4× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +23% · 32% of their budget
  • SA
    SHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +377% · 56% of their budget

Funded once

  • FL
    FORTUNE LAKE LUTHERAN CAMP ASSOC INC
    one grant, 2022 · $219k
  • LL
    LOCKER LUNCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $148k
  • CO
    CASA OF THE FOX CITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $126k · revenue +63% · 31% 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
Waushara County Food Pantry Inc

We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.

Food & Nutrition
2
Hope House of Manitowoc County Inc

Helping families and individuals experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence.

Human Services
3
Waupaca Area Food Pantry Inc

To supply food to the under privileged.

Food & Nutrition
4
Mukwonago Food Pantry

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Merrill Community Homeless Center Inc

To provide shelter to the homeless community in merrill wi

Housing & Shelter
6
Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter

Baraboo area homeless shelter works to provide shelter and comprehensive case management services to persons experiencing homelessness in baraboo, wisconsin and the surrounding area.

Housing & Shelter
7
Hope Center Inc

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…

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8
Otsego County Community Food Pantry

Mission is to provide food to in need families of otsego county as well as weekend food to in need children

Food & Nutrition
9
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc

The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
10
Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc

To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.

Human Services
11
Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc

Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

Housing & Shelter
12
Food Pantry of Waukesha County Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors Place Inc the; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 79 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
31/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FORTUNE LAKE LUTHERAN CAMP ASSOC INC: $219,027 · OtherFORTUNE LAKE LUTHERAN CAMP ASSOC INCBATES HALL PRESERVATION: $121,374 · OtherBATES HALL PRESERVATIONFRIENDS OF THE CRYSTAL FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $92,342 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CRYSTAL FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENTLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $73,374 · OtherELCHO AREA COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $69,789 · OtherHODAG10S INC: $65,215 · OtherWEST IRON COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $60,938 · OtherBRIDGE THE GAP INC: $58,791 · Other+40 more: $876,184 · Other+40 moreSHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC: $123,034 · Human ServicesSHAWANO AREA MAT…Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc: $104,715 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Chris…Catholic Charities of the Diocese: $88,076 · Human ServicesCatholic Chariti…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $46,175 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLU…ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC: $45,306 · Human ServicesENCOMPASS EARLY …ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE IN LANGLADE COUNTY INC: $31,543 · Human ServicesADVOCATES FOR VI…Community Benefit Tree Inc: $21,236 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $18,408 · Human Services+2 more: $20,484 · Human ServicesUnited Way of Langlade County Inc: $345,190 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of L…CANDID: $58,952 · PhilanthropyCANDIDCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $18,176 · PhilanthropyMEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $11,053 · PhilanthropyAntigo Area Community Food Pantry: $171,567 · Food & NutritionAntigo Area …LOCKER LUNCH INC: $147,772 · Food & NutritionLOCKER LUNCH…RHINELANDER AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,825 · Food & NutritionRHINELANDER …INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $19,186 · Food & NutritionSHAWANO AREA FOOD PANTRY AND RESOURCES CENTER INC: $17,421 · Food & NutritionWOLF RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $70,131 · Housing & ShelterDOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC: $52,035 · Housing & ShelterFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $35,845 · Housing & ShelterNORTHWOODS ALLIANCE FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING INC: $28,173 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC: $125,788 · Crime & LegalCrystal Theatre: $52,213 · Arts & CultureELCHO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $38,990 · Arts & CultureMENOMINEE OPERA HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $10,214 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,637,034Human Services$498,977Philanthropy$448,371Food & Nutrition$376,771Housing & Shelter$197,184Crime & Legal$125,788Arts & Culture$101,417

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Langlade County Inc: $345,190 over 7y, 84% of budgetAntigo Area Community Food Pantry: $171,567 over 4y, 32% of budgetCASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC: $125,788 over 1y, 31% of budgetSHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC: $123,034 over 2y, 56% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc: $104,715 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $88,076 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOLF RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $70,131 over 1y, 18% of budgetCANDID: $58,952 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE THE GAP INC: $58,791 over 1y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP BATAWAGAMA: $54,166 over 1y, 53% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc: $52,739 over 1y, 14% of budgetCrystal Theatre: $52,213 over 1y, 33% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC: $52,035 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $46,175 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC: $45,306 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OTTAWA POST 3134: $44,622 over 1y, 44% of budgetABUNDANT LIFE MISSION INC: $41,076 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHmong American Center Inc: $39,343 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $35,845 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF ABUSE IN LANGLADE COUNTY INC: $31,543 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetACHIEVE CENTER INC: $29,319 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNORTHWOODS ALLIANCE FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING INC: $28,173 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCommunity Benefit Tree Inc: $21,236 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRHINELANDER AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,825 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $20,093 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $19,186 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC: $18,936 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD: $18,902 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLINCOLN-WAY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $18,685 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetEVERGREEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $18,408 over 1y, 31% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $18,176 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHAWANO AREA FOOD PANTRY AND RESOURCES CENTER INC: $17,421 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $16,605 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDAR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $16,128 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASPIRUS IRON AREA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetJAKE'S DIAPERS INC: $14,835 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $10,612 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMENOMINEE OPERA HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $10,214 over 1y, 20% of budgetANTIGO AREA RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHWOODS UNITED WAY: $6,053 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE: $5,422 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Wisconsin Public Serv…Greater Green Bay Com…Community Foundation …Community Foundation …Abbybank Foundation I…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Little Rapids Corpora…Ba & Esther Greenheck…George Kress Foundati…J J Keller Foundation…Covantage Credit Union
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI47.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Covantage Cares Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Covantage Cares Foundation 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 79 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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