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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

$5.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$2.6MPublic Benefit$1.4MHousing & Shelter$480kEducation$211kHealth$185kArts & Culture$142kPhilanthropy$100kFood & Nutrition$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $2,841,850, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,101,676 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,259,826 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $473k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
$58,110
Median grant
1
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BADGERLAND AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM$2,333,200
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY$132,000
CITY OF FORT ATKINSON$132,000
HOMELESS COALITION OF FORT ATKINSON$100,500
ROCK RIVER HERITAGE$58,110
ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC$50,000
COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN$10,000
FRIENDS OF PBS WISONSIN$10,000
FORT ATKINSON BEAUTIFICATION COUNCIL$9,500
EVERGREEN CEMETERY$6,540
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%HOMELESS COALITION: $105k → 8%HOMELESS COALITION OF FORT ATKINSON: $101k → 8%ST VINCENT: $22k → 8%GALLUP FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 9 repeat orgs$338k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +124% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$4.9M
$318k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+124%
-8%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionMembership BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +988%
  • HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $264k · revenue +12%
  • RR
    ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $169k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON & N WALWORTH COUNTIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -32% · 30% of their budget
  • FY
    FEED YOUR SOUL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +2%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DEPAUL FORT ATKINSON
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -7%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Waukesha Free Clinic Inc

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.

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2
Fort Community Credit Union

To help every member be in a better financial position than when we met them.

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3
Forward Janesville Inc

Forward Janesville, Inc. leads private sector economic and community development efforts to ensure the continued health and prosperity of business and industry in Janesville.

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4
Fordland Senior Citizens Housing in

Provide affordable housing for low incom

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5
Food Pantry of Waukesha County Inc

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.

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6
Bedford Community Housing Association

To maintain and operate a low income and elderly housing complex in Bedford, IA.

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7
Atchison Community Health Clinic Inc

Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.

Health
8
Northwest Affordable Housing Inc

To provide safe, decent housing with security from displacement to low to moderate income households.

Housing & Shelter
9
Affordable Community Housing Inc

Management of affordable housing in walworth county, wi consisting of 44 units tax credit and affordable apartments.

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10
Fond Du Lac Area United Way Inc

To unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community

Philanthropy
11
La Pointe Community Clinic Inc

To promote and provide quality health care to the community of la pointe, wi.

Health
12
Fort Worth Voa Living Center Inc

Provides housing to disabled persons under section 811 of the national housing act under agreement with the department of hud.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rock River Heritage Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC: $2,595,143 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INCCITY OF FORT ATKINSON: $1,368,932 · OtherCITY OF FORT ATKINSONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $264,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INCSCHOOL DISTRICT OF FORT ATKINSON: $183,432 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF FORT ATKINSONUNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON & N WALWORTH COUNTIES INC: $100,000 · Other+8 more: $138,928 · Other+8 moreHOMELESS COALITION OF FORT ATKINSON: $205,500 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DEPAUL FORT ATKINSON: $22,000 · Human ServicesDAVE GALLUP FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $168,529 · HealthFORT HEALTHCARE INC: $16,708 · HealthROCK RIVER HERITAGE INC: $91,554 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFEED YOUR SOUL INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionEVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $28,046 · Membership Benefit
Youth Development$2,595,143Other$2,055,292Human Services$242,500Health$185,237Arts & Culture$101,554Food & Nutrition$75,000Membership Benefit$28,046

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC: $2,595,143 over 6y, 18% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $264,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHOMELESS COALITION OF FORT ATKINSON: $205,500 over 2y, 96% of budgetROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $168,529 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JEFFERSON & N WALWORTH COUNTIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetROCK RIVER HERITAGE INC: $91,554 over 5y, 20% of budgetFEED YOUR SOUL INC: $75,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetEVERGREEN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $28,046 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL FORT ATKINSON: $22,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetKOSHKONONG GOLF LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFORT ATKINSON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $17,800 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetPARENTS COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL: $17,128 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetFORT HEALTHCARE INC: $16,708 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVE GALLUP FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC: $14,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHEL HOUSE OF WHITEWATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetJefferson County Literacy Council Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Fort Healthcare IncGreater Watertown Com…Generac Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fort Healthcare IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fort Atkinson Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fort Atkinson Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Fort Atkinson Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fort Atkinson Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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