· Public charity
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 and social conditions.
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 11 grants below total $465,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $762,717 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $297,667 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVANTAGE CARES FOUNDATION INC | $350,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOX VALLEY INC | $25,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH WISCONSIN | $15,300 |
| WISCONSIN TIMBER RATTLERS | $15,000 |
| WAUSAU EVENTS | $12,500 |
| ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| SHANNON MARIE AND LOUIS PORTER SMITH FOUNDATION INC | $6,750 |
| WOMEN'S FUND FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION | $6,500 |
| JO-VIN BASEBALL LLC DBA WISCONSIN RAPIDS RAFTERS BASEBALL | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- CCCOVANTAGE CARES FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +166% · 75% of their budget
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +18%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- DEDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -97%
- WCWAUSAU CHILDRENS MUSEUM INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FFFARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -57%
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.
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…
To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.
Forward Janesville, Inc. leads private sector economic and community development efforts to ensure the continued health and prosperity of business and industry in Janesville.
To receive and administer charitable endowment funds, to award grants to social, educational, scientific, religious and other charitable organizations in door county, wisconsin.
boost community involvement for individuals and businesses.
We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
To promote and foster awareness of economic development and civic issues in the heart of the valley area of wisconsin
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 36 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 COVANTAGE CARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Langlade County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU CENTRAL WISCONSIN SPORTS AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF MARQUETTE MI SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds Antigo Area Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TASTE N GLOW BALLOON FEST ↗
- Who funds FUTURE NEENAH INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shannon Marie and Louis Porter Smith Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFPARC ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEWCAP INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds RHINELANDER AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Langlade County 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 · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Covantage Cares Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Elwyn Remington Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Myra M and Robert L Vandehey Foundation Ltd
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 Credit Union 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.