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Fulcrum Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Fulcrum Foundation Inc

Promote local health care and provide representation and oversight to aspirus medford hospital & clinics, inc.

$804k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $576k
$62,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASPIRUS MEDFORD HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILLIPS$100,000
MEDFORD AREA FOR TOMORROW$80,000
TAYLOR COUNTY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING$70,700
TAYLOR COUNTY FIRST RESPONDERS$63,000
GILMAN RURAL FIRE DEPT$62,300
GILMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
RIB LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT$36,000
HUEYS HIDEAWAY CHILDRENS MUSEUM$32,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
TOWN OF JUMP RIVER$25,000
MEDFORD AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$25,000
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 (FY23–23, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAND BOX INC: $39k → 11%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84M · 12 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
19

Total granted

$84M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

42%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $502k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AI
    ASPIRUS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $82M · revenue +522%
  • AM
    ASPIRUS MEDFORD HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $254k · revenue +22%
  • RG
    RAINBOW GYMNASTICS INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $47k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • PS
    PRENTICE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $186k
  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT OF GILMAN
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
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
Aspirus Wausau Hospital Inc

We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.

Health
2
Aspirus Merrill Hospital & Clinics Inc

We heal people, promote health and strengthen communities.

Health
3
Aspirus Ironwood Hospital & Clinics Inc

We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.

Health
4
Aspirus Riverview Hospital & Clinics Inc

We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.

Health
5
Aspirus Rhinelander & Tomahawk Hospitals & Clinics Inc

We heal people, promote health and strengthen communities.

Health
6
Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center co Religious Sisters of Mercy

Provide health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay for services.

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7
Prairie Ridge Health Inc

By building caring relationships with those we serve, we guide the journey to health and wellness.

Health
8
Aspirus Iron River Hospital & Clinics Inc

We heal people, promote health and strengthen communities.

Health
9
Aspirus Merrill Hospital Foundation Inc

We heal people, promote health and strengthen communities.

—
10
Milford Health Care Services Inc
—
11
Midland Ambulance Service

Ambulance service for the public

—
12
Aspirus Medical Group - Northern Wisconsin Inc

We heal people, promote health and strengthen communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics Inc; the most unlike its peers is Medford Area for Tomorrow 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

14 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. 14 of the 39 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASPIRUS INC: $81,849,524 · HealthASPIRUS INC+3 more: $416,774 · HealthRIB LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $421,000 · OtherGILMAN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $410,000 · OtherMEDFORD AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $285,000 · OtherPRENTICE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $250,000 · OtherMEDFORD AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $240,947 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $205,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $186,000 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF GILMAN: $125,000 · Other+20 more: $997,796 · OtherTAYLOR COUNTY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $98,900 · Housing & ShelterMEDFORD CURLING CLUB INC: $53,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF RIB LAKE INCORPORATED: $45,000 · Community ImprovementMEDFORD AREA FOR TOMORROW INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyRAINBOW GYMNASTICS INC: $47,000 · Recreation & SportsSAND BOX INC: $39,200 · Human ServicesHUEYS HIDEAWAY CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $32,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$82,266,298Other$3,120,743Housing & Shelter$98,900Community Improvement$98,000Philanthropy$80,000Recreation & Sports$47,000Human Services$39,200Arts & Culture$32,000

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 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
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.

  • Who funds ASPIRUS INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRUS MEDFORD HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TAYLOR COUNTY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDFORD AREA FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
  • Who funds TAYLOR COUNTY FIRST RESPONDERS ↗
  • Who funds MEDFORD CURLING CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRUS MEDFORD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW GYMNASTICS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF RIB LAKE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SAND BOX INC ↗
  • Who funds HUEYS HIDEAWAY CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PRICE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗

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 I…Abbybank Foundation I…Green Bay Packers Fou…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fulcrum Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fulcrum Foundation Inc. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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