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Educators Credit Union

Our goal is to be the best credit union, not the largest.

$795k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$583kHealth$471kEmployment$366kEducation$330kArts & Culture$195kHuman Services$160kHousing & Shelter$112kAnimals$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $358,240 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $795,015 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $436,775 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 · $20k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $226k
$13,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN$65,000
UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY$60,690
THE BOBBY PORTIS FOUNDATION$50,000
RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$50,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$30,000
HOUSING RESOUCES INC$15,000
ROC FOUNDATION INC$14,500
PROHEALTH CARE$13,000
RACINE KENOSHA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC$10,000
BLACK ARTS COUNCIL OF RACINE$10,000
KENOSHA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES$10,000
RACINEKENOSHA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$10,000
FRANKLIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$7,500
FRANKLIN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$7,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA$5,050
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KENOSHA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $10k → 10%KENOSHA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $5k → 10%CITY OF WAUKESHA: $10k → 5%RACINE KENOSHA COMMUNITYY ACTION AGENCY INC: $20k → 10%RACINE KENOSHA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $10k → 10%HALO INC: $11k → 10%HALO INC: $11k → 10%HALO INC: $10k → 10%RACINE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%RACINE FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 10%HALO INC: $10k → 10%RACINE FAMILY YMCA: $9k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 27 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
26

Total granted

$2.2M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

81%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $431k · revenue +59%
  • UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $407k · revenue +13%
  • RZ
    RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AO
    ADRC OF RACINE COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • SM
    SOUTH MILWAUKEE FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -42%
  • SM
    ST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +83%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
3
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy
4
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
5
Racine County Opportunity Center

Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…

Human Services
6
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

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.

—
7
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
8
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health
9
University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc

An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…

Education
10
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
11
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

—
12
Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Inc

Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Blackhawk Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Local 212 Matc Believe in Students Fast Fund Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%7%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr20%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%3%<5yr12%2%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr16%7%35–55yr20%43%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/59
the rest of the field
12%
1,140/9,749

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.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 59 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/45
Grantees still filing
24/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST — $431,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUSTAURORA HEALTH CARE INC — $285,000 · OtherAURORA HEALTH CARE INCMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $100,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLSMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ADMIN AND SUPERVISORS COUNCIL INC — $72,000 · OtherRACINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $50,133 · OtherBOBBY PORTIS CHARITY — $50,000 · Other+29 more — $364,743 · Other+29 moreUNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC — $407,143 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $113,767 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWA…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FO…+4 more — $29,151 · PhilanthropyARTS AT LARGE INC — $164,000 · Arts & CultureMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $14,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $6,500 · Arts & CultureHOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC — $41,850 · Human ServicesRACINE KENOSHA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RACINE — $29,375 · Human ServicesKENOSHA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesWAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesAll Saints Health Foundation — $40,000 · HealthPROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $7,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global — $5,798 · HealthRACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $80,400 · AnimalsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 · AnimalsHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,352,876Philanthropy$610,061Arts & Culture$184,500Human Services$126,225Health$103,798Animals$90,400Housing & Shelter$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST — $431,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC — $407,143 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetARTS AT LARGE INC — $164,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $113,767 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $80,400 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ADMIN AND SUPERVISORS COUNCIL INC — $72,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC — $41,850 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAll Saints Health Foundation — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRACINE KENOSHA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RACINE — $29,375 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH MILWAUKEE FOOTBALL BOOSTER CLUB INC — $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROC FOUNDATION INC — $24,500 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $15,898 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC — $15,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKENOSHA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROHEALTH CARE INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC — $12,162 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAK CREEK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $6,600 over 1y, 38% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFranklin Educational Foundation Inc — $6,350 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetRIVER BEND NATURE CENTER INC — $5,750 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTRANSCENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENOSHA COUNTY INC — $5,639 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTILLWATERS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCRIME STOPPERS OF RACINE COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTA WISCONSIN CONGRESS — $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLOCAL 212 MATC BELIEVE IN STUDENTS FAST FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Racine Community Foun…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Lang Family Foundatio…Ec Styberg Foundation…United Way of Racine …United Way of Greater…Baird Foundation IncGreater Green Bay Com…The Johnson Foundatio…Waukesha County Commu…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI32.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Racine Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Lang Family Foundation Inc · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc · United Way of Racine County Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Johnson Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community 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 Educators 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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