How much did FOX CITIES CONVENTION & VISITORS grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of FOX CITIES CONVENTION & VISITORS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

appreciateinspire

2019

—

2020

—

2021

covid relief

2022

—

2023

—

2024

kayak rentalrental stationvideoinspireexhibit

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k7 grants · $146k
$50k–250k5 grants · $587k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

CITY OF MENASHA$200,000
THE BUILDING FOR KIDS$134,000
HECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE$100,000
HISTORY MUSEUM AT THE CASTLE$100,000
FUTURE NEENAH INC$53,100
CREATIVE DOWNTOWN APPLETON INC$40,000
OUTAGAMIE COUNTY$37,560
VILLAGE OF HORTONVILLE$14,500
CITY OF APPLETON$13,500
VILLAGE OF KIMBERLY$13,500
CITY OF NEENAH$13,500
VILLAGE OF FOX CROSSING$13,500

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 8%. 5% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.9M · 13 repeat orgs$776k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.9M

$694k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%

+3%

Still filing today

54%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

HM
HISTORY MUSEUM AT THE CASTLE
4× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +30%
TB
THE BUILDING FOR KIDS
4× · 2017–2024 · $222k · revenue +90%
BN
BUBOLZ NATURE PRESERVE
2× · 2018–2021 · $160k · revenue +22%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF KAUKAUNA
one grant, 2021 · $250k
AI
APPLETON ICE INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +30%
FC
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +45%

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.

Fort Madison Sports Complex Inc

Fort madison sports complex provides the community with a complete youth sports program. the organization offers participants from kindergarten to high school positive learning and team experiences along with the opportunity to create…

Youth Development

Oshkosh Convention & Visitors

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

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Artpark & Company Inc

Artpark & company manages the programming of artpark state park. artpark & company is the largest cultural institution in niagara county which provides a variety of artistic and cultural programs in a natural setting. artpark presents a…

—

Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

See schedule o for statement. a vital cultural center, educational institution, an expanding network of ideas, the museum of wisconsin art collects and interprets american art through the lens of a single state.

Arts & Culture

Fox Lake Conservation League Inc

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Fox Theatre Inc

To preserve and share the fox theatre

Arts & Culture

Thompson Park Conservancy Inc

Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.

Arts & Culture

Atchison Area Chamber of Commerce

To focus on the quality of life, attraction, growth, and retention of jobs and businesses in atchison county.

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Downtown Business Improvement District

To enhance the economic vitality of the members of the downtown bid.

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Washington Pavilion Management Inc

Inspire, educate, entertain and enrich our region through arts and science opportunities.

Arts & Culture

Fox Cities Chamber Foundation Inc

To foster community awareness & encourage projects that will enhance development & growth of business within the fox cities area & the mission of the fox cities chamber of commerce and industry, inc.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative Downtown Appleton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gordon Bulbolz Nature Preserve Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

12/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,353,957Arts & Culture$723,986Environment$293,100Recreation & Sports$200,000Education$150,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation for the Fox ValleyWI50.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Mielke Family Foundation Inc · Capital Credit Union · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Fox Communities Credit Union · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community

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 organisation FOX CITIES CONVENTION & VISITORS 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NAVIGATE NEENAH-FUTURE NEENAH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +84% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 930843731 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NAVIGATE NEENAH-FUTURE NEENAH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Fox Cities Convention & Visitors?

Find your warmest path to Fox Cities Convention & Visitors through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FOX CITIES CONVENTION & VISITORS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fox Cities Convention & Visitors?

More from the funding graph

FOX CITIES CONVENTION & VISITORS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fox Cities Convention & Visitors?

More from the funding graph