Wisconsin · Community foundation
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
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $58,110
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,333,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Fort Atkinson Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $2.8M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $411k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $218k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $620k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $287k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $445k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $246k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $213k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Janesville Inc | $2,595,143 | 6 | 18% |
| City of Fort Atkinson | $1,368,932 | 8 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha County Inc | $264,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Homeless Coalition of Fort Atkinson | $205,500 | 2 | 96% |
| School District of Fort Atkinson | $183,432 | 7 | n/a |
| Rock River Community Clinic Inc | $168,529 | 5 | 2% |
| United Way of Jefferson & N Walworth Counties Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 30% |
| Rock River Heritage Inc | $91,554 | 5 | 20% |
| Feed Your Soul Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Fort Atkinson Beautification Council Inc | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Fort Atkinson Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Fort Atkinson Community Foundation
- How much does Fort Atkinson Community Foundation give?
- Fort Atkinson Community Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $2,841,850, out of $5,101,676 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Fort Atkinson Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (49%), Public Benefit (26%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Fort Atkinson Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Club of Janesville Inc ($2.6M), City of Fort Atkinson ($1.4M), Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha County Inc ($264k).
- Does Fort Atkinson Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fort Atkinson Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fort Healthcare Inc, Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation Inc, Generac Foundation Inc.
- Where is Fort Atkinson Community Foundation based?
- Fort Atkinson Community Foundation is based in WI.
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