· Public charity
Eau Claire Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc
Visit eau claire is a community asset dedicated to creatively marketing, effectively managing, endlessly motivating and continously building a dynamic tourism economy of business, sports and leisure travelers.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $235k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC | $275,000 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY MUSEUM INC | $178,612 |
| CITY OF ALTOONA | $56,383 |
| CITY OF EAU CLAIRE | $49,100 |
| TOWN OF UNION | $12,969 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| CITY OF OSSEO | $8,335 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against -62% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- CCCONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue ×25 · 39% of their budget
- ECEAU CLAIRE ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $966k · revenue +84% · 32% of their budget
- WLWISCONSIN LOGGING MUSEUM INC6× · 2017–2022 · $228k · revenue +3% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- WFWISCONSIN FARM TECHNOLOGY DAYS INCone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue -117%
- FEFLYING EAGLES SKI CLUB INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -62%
- TETRINITY EQUESTRIAN CENTER KIDS KAMP INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue 0%
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.
Advance economic prosperity through business and job growth. the eau claire area economic development corporation's purpose is to create and implement strategies to attract and grow businesses, investment, and talent to our service area.
Visit eau claire is a community asset dedicated to creatively marketing, effectively managing, endlessly motivating and continously building a dynamic tourism economy of business, sports and leisure travelers. we amplify the image of our…
The eau claire area chamber of commerce, a not-for-profit business membership organization with steady membership around 1,200 members, is the advocate of business striving to enhance and protect the business environment and quality of…
It is the mission of the organization to maintain, protect, and improve the quality of the lakes and connecting waterways of the eagle river chain of lakes in vilas county wisconsin.
Provides programs, activities, and experiences to help people of all ages explore and discover the magic and mysteries of the natural world.
Educates riders and raises funds to improve and connect area atv trails keeping riders off paved and gravel roadways as much as possible making the sport safer and more family friendly.
The corporation is responsible for developing and enacting all policies and procedures required to acquire and ensure the sustainable operation of an arts facility at the lowest reasonable cost for the benefit of community arts…
To preserve and demonstrate our agricultural heritage
Producing live community theatre
Eau claire community complex, inc. was formed to acquire, construct, own, and operate a multi-purpose events and recreation facility, making portions of it available to the university of wisconsin - eau claire and mayo clinic health system…
To secure the resources needed to provide the financial stability that will assure the future of the eau claire county fair as a family and youth focused community event.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sculptures Eau Claire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seymour Ball Clubs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LOGGING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURES EAU CLAIRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FARM TECHNOLOGY DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds SEYMOUR BALL CLUBS ↗
- Who funds FLYING EAGLES SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY EQUESTRIAN CENTER KIDS KAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKHAWK RETRIEVER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds VISIT EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION 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: Pablo Foundation Inc · Eau Claire Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · 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 Eau Claire Area Convention and Visitors Bureau 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.