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Fort Atkinson Community Foundation
To receive donations for educational, cultural, charitable, or benevolent purposes and use them to benefit our residents and enhance the quality of life in the fort atkinson area
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $2,841,850 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,101,676 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,259,826 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $473k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BADGERLAND AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM | $2,333,200 |
| CITY OF FORT ATKINSON | $132,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY | $132,000 |
| HOMELESS COALITION OF FORT ATKINSON | $100,500 |
| ROCK RIVER HERITAGE | $58,110 |
| ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PBS WISONSIN | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| FORT ATKINSON BEAUTIFICATION COUNCIL | $9,500 |
| EVERGREEN CEMETERY | $6,540 |
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 (FY21–25, $243k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +124% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +988%
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $264k · revenue +12%- RRROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $169k · revenue +148%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON & N WALWORTH COUNTIES INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -32% · 30% of their budget
- FYFEED YOUR SOUL INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +2%
- SVST VINCENT DEPAUL FORT ATKINSONone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -7%
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.
The clinic's mission is to support the health care of uninsured and low-income residents of waukesha county. the clinic provides access to free or discounted services and medications.
To help every member be in a better financial position than when we met them.
Forward Janesville, Inc. leads private sector economic and community development efforts to ensure the continued health and prosperity of business and industry in Janesville.
Provide affordable housing for low incom
The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.
To maintain and operate a low income and elderly housing complex in Bedford, IA.
Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.
To provide safe, decent housing with security from displacement to low to moderate income households.
Management of affordable housing in walworth county, wi consisting of 44 units tax credit and affordable apartments.
To unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community
To promote and provide quality health care to the community of la pointe, wi.
Provides housing to disabled persons under section 811 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rock River Heritage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Koshkonong Golf Learning & Development Center 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 32 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 22 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS COALITION OF FORT ATKINSON ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON & N WALWORTH COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FEED YOUR SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL FORT ATKINSON ↗
- Who funds KOSHKONONG GOLF LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FORT ATKINSON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PARENTS COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FORT HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds DAVE GALLUP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL HOUSE OF WHITEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Jefferson County Literacy 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: Fort Healthcare Inc · Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation Inc · Generac Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Fort Atkinson 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.
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.
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