Wisconsin · Public charity
Educators Credit Union
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- $795k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $358k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.4B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Educators Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $358k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $225k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $343k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $368k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $462k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $305k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $280k | 74% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $171k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Achievement USA Health & Welfare Benefit Plan Trust | $431,000 | 8 | 1% |
| United Way of Racine County Inc | $407,143 | 8 | 2% |
| Aurora Health Care Inc | $285,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Arts at Large Inc | $164,000 | 4 | 5% |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | $113,767 | 5 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Public Schools | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Racine Zoological Society Inc | $80,400 | 4 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Public Schools Admin and Supervisors Council Inc | $72,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Racine Unified School District | $50,133 | 2 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Educators Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Educators Credit Union
- How much does Educators Credit Union give?
- Educators Credit Union reported 15 itemized grants totaling $358,240, out of $795,015 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Educators Credit Union fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Health (19%), Employment (14%).
- Who are Educators Credit Union's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Junior Achievement USA Health & Welfare Benefit Plan Trust ($431k), United Way of Racine County Inc ($407k), Aurora Health Care Inc ($285k).
- Does Educators Credit Union fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Educators Credit Union?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Racine Community Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is Educators Credit Union based?
- Educators Credit Union is based in WI.
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