· Community foundation
Eau Claire Community Foundation
To establish endowed funds that will benefit the eau claire community today and in the future.
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 46 grants below total $1,296,558 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,930,642 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $634,084 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 $10k11 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $671k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF CHIPPEWA VALLEY | $201,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LOYAL | $115,556 |
| BOBS HOUSE FOR DOGS | $100,000 |
| ST MARYS ASSUMPTION PARISH | $90,000 |
| WATDA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BEAVER CREEK RESERVE | $54,000 |
| JR ACHIEVEMENT OF WI N AND W CENT R | $50,744 |
| EAU CLAIRE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $43,090 |
| SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER | $40,000 |
| PARTNERS OF MARSHFIELD MEDICAL CENT | $36,919 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER C | $30,755 |
| LE PHILLIPS MEORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,740 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANIT | $30,120 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE | $27,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LADYSMITH | $25,850 |
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k 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
- ECEAU CLAIRE CONFLUENCE ARTS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +31%
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $644k · revenue +202%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- HLHAYWARD LIBRARY FOUNDATION LTDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $181k · revenue +93%
- COCITY OF ALTOONAone grant, 2019 · $67k
- AOADRC OF CHIPPEWA COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $40k
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
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…
The mission of casa of east central wisconsin is to advocate for the best interest of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, who are in need of court protection, to ensure they have a safe and permanent home and the opportunity to…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.
Establish and maintain child advocacy centers and teams in wisconsin.
The advocacy center of winona's mission is to end domestic and sexual violence in winona county.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Courageous Women Association. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
143 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. 143 of the 178 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 EAU CLAIRE CONFLUENCE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE CONFLUENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE INC ↗
- Who funds HAYWARD LIBRARY FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds LE PHILLIPS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds COURTE OREILLES LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BEAVER CREEK RESERVE ↗
- Who funds BETTENDORF COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds BOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FALL CREEK AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc ↗
- Who funds Bobshouse 4Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUB HOMELESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CHIPPEWA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL 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 · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Xcel Energy Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Rcu Foundation Inc · Annmarie Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc
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 Community Foundation 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.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
- Hopeworks of Howard County Inc — 29% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Womens Foundation of Oregon — 0% of income from government
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.