How much did Fox Communities Credit Union grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$502kCommunity Improvement$411kArts & Culture$204kYouth Development$163kHousing & Shelter$151kHuman Services$133kEmployment$52kRecreation & Sports$43kOther$0

02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $55k
$10k–50k17 grants · $291k
$50k–250k5 grants · $453k

$11,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FOX CARES FOUNDATION	$220,600
GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC	$75,000
ON BROADWAY INC	$56,025
VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC	$51,500
BASIC NEEDS GIVING PARTNERSHIP INC	$50,000
APPLETON DOWNTOWN INC	$45,000
FOX CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF INDUSTRY INC	$28,955
COMPASSION CONNECTIONS CENTER INC	$25,200
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER	$25,000
UNITED WAY FOX CITIES	$22,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL WI INC	$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY	$16,682
BUILDING FOR KIDS	$15,000
UNITED WAY BROWN COUNTY	$12,000
YMCA OF THE FOX CITES	$11,000

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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 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.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 27 repeat orgs$448k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+8%

Still filing today

96%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $241k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

FC
Fox Cares Foundation
3× · 2022–2024 · $268k · revenue +41% · 96% of their budget
OB
ON BROADWAY INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $160k · revenue +151%
FC
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
2× · 2023–2024 · $76k · revenue +16%

Funded once

MO
MILE OF MUSIC
one grant, 2022 · $43k
UV
US VENTURESCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +3%
OK
OSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +109%

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.

Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

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

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Fox Communities Credit Union

We partner with our members, communities, and fox family to build stronger financial futures.

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Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…

Philanthropy

Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation

To provide leadership, direction, coordination, and services to advance economic development in the greater oshkosh area.

Community Improvement

Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment

Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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West Bend Community Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Oconto County Economic Development Corporation

Stimulate development of the local economy, provide support to existing and prospective employers, serve as a professional resource to local units of government and promote tourism opportunities within oconto county wisconsin.

Community Improvement

Chamber of Commerce - Greater Beloit

Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.

Education

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Us Ventureschmidt Family Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

225/3,246

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 45 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

21/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$502,446Other$502,525Human Services$198,060Community Improvement$196,785Arts & Culture$136,950Housing & Shelter$126,000Youth Development$81,890

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.

J J Keller Foundation IncWI52.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Capital Credit Union · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · The Boldt Family Fund Inc

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 Fox Communities Credit Union 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

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fox Communities Credit Union?

Find your warmest path to Fox Communities Credit Union 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines