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Fulcrum Foundation Inc

Promote local health care and provide representation and oversight to aspirus medford hospital & clinics, inc. And the association represents the health care interests of our communities and manages the financial assets entrusted to us. Its fy2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$804k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
72%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$62,300
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 18
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$31M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 72% of the organizations Fulcrum Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$804k57%
FY202418$1.8M72%
FY202312$664k75%
FY20224$82M25%
FY20214$181k50%
FY20203$290k67%
FY20183$20k100%
FY20171$10kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$83MEducation$1.4MRecreation & Sports$501kPublic Safety & Disaster$391kCommunity Improvement$250kHuman Services$241kHousing & Shelter$99kArts & Culture$32kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Aspirus Inc$81,849,52420%
Rib Lake School District$421,0003n/a
Medford Area Public School District$285,0004n/a
Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics Inc$253,77440%
School District of Gilman$125,0001n/a
Aspirus Health Foundation Inc$100,00016%
Taylor County Supportive Housing$98,900274%
Stepping Stones Inc$92,000120%
Medford Area for Tomorrow Inc$80,0002n/a
Taylor County First Responders$63,000131%
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All grantees of Fulcrum Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Aspirus Inc$81,849,52420%
Rib Lake School District$421,0003n/a
Medford Area Public School District$285,0004n/a
Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics Inc$253,77440%
School District of Gilman$125,0001n/a
Aspirus Health Foundation Inc$100,00016%
Taylor County Supportive Housing$98,900274%
Stepping Stones Inc$92,000120%
Medford Area for Tomorrow Inc$80,0002n/a
Taylor County First Responders$63,000131%
Medford Curling Club Inc$53,000140%
Aspirus Medford Foundation Inc$52,375321%
Rainbow Gymnastics Inc$47,000212%
Friends of Rib Lake Incorporated$45,000135%
Sand Box Inc$39,20017%
Hueys Hideaway Childrens Museum Inc$32,0001n/a
Medford City Baseball Inc$30,6002n/a
Neighbor to Neighbor$30,0001n/a
Taylor County Drug Opposition Partners Inc$25,0001n/a
Phillips Youth Baseball Inc$25,0002n/a
Taylor County Literacy Council$25,0001n/a
Central Price County Ambulance Service Inc$10,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Fulcrum Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAspirus Inc: $81,849,524 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics Inc: $253,774 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAspirus Health Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTaylor County Supportive Housing: $98,900 over 2y, 74% of budgetStepping Stones Inc: $92,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTaylor County First Responders: $63,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMedford Curling Club Inc: $53,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetAspirus Medford Foundation Inc: $52,375 over 3y, 21% of budgetRainbow Gymnastics Inc: $47,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFriends of Rib Lake Incorporated: $45,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSand Box Inc: $39,200 over 1y, 6.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Annmarie Foundation IncWI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annmarie Foundation Inc · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · 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.

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About Fulcrum Foundation Inc

How much does Fulcrum Foundation Inc give?
Fulcrum Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $804,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Fulcrum Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (96%), Education (2%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
Who are Fulcrum Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aspirus Inc ($82M), Rib Lake School District ($421k), Medford Area Public School District ($285k).
Does Fulcrum Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fulcrum Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fulcrum Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annmarie Foundation Inc, Abbybank Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
Where is Fulcrum Foundation Inc based?
Fulcrum Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 39 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-PF 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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