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Great Rivers United Way Inc

Our mission is to unite people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities. Our vision is that all individuals and families in our communities will achieve their full potential through education, income stability and healthy lives.

$878k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$24,120
Largest grant, FY2024
$98,676
Organizations funded a year
26 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Great Rivers United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEmploymentOther
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
FY2024still arriving27$875k4%
FY202327$884k0%
FY202228$1.0M4%
FY202128$1.1M4%
FY202028$1.5M7%
FY201927$1.3M7%
FY201826$1.5M0%
FY201727$1.6Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$3.6MHealth$2.1MYouth Development$1.9MFood & Nutrition$723kMembership Benefit$713kCommunity Improvement$419kPublic Safety & Disaster$232kEmployment$32kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Great Rivers United Way Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family and Children's Center Inc$1,037,89982%
New Horizons Shelter and Outreach Centers Inc$782,15989%
Couleecap Inc$713,10182%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater la Cross$697,49185%
The Salvation Army$619,9418n/a
Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc$553,12880%
YWCA la Crosse Inc$520,16686%
Wafer Inc$434,098820%
Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council Inc$418,75281%
The Parenting Place Inc$380,00583%
Coulee Council on Addictions Inc$355,205811%
Boys and Girls Clubs of West Central Wis$335,45986%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc$302,055816%
Families First of Monroe County Inc$299,953830%
Independent Living Resources Inc$288,44484%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$231,93870%
Hunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc$221,228811%
Boy Scouts of America 624 Gateway Area Council$194,96984%
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin - Badgerland Council Inc$190,65181%
Boys & Girls Club of Sparta Inc$154,02785%
Scenic Bluffs Health Center Inc$134,41880%
Cia Siab Inc$132,31963%
Bluff Country Family Resources$127,78288%
Options in Reproductive Care Inc$122,03624%
La Crescent Area Hcp Healthy Community Partnership$115,63789%
Mobile Meals of la Crosse Inc$67,59889%
Family Service Association of Sheboygan Inc$62,67072%
Coulee Children's Center Inc$49,62613%
Workforce Connections Inc$31,52940%
Semcac$29,51610%
Casa for Kids Inc$15,99619%
Family Promise of the Great Rivers Inc$8,8001n/a
Consumer Credit Counseling Services of the Midwest Inc$6,99910%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Great Rivers United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily and Children's Center Inc: $1,037,899 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetNew Horizons Shelter and Outreach Centers Inc: $782,159 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetCouleecap Inc: $713,101 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater la Cross: $697,491 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetGundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc: $553,128 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA la Crosse Inc: $520,166 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetWafer Inc: $434,098 over 8y, 20% of budgetWestern Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council Inc: $418,752 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetThe Parenting Place Inc: $380,005 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCoulee Council on Addictions Inc: $355,205 over 8y, 11% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of West Central Wis: $335,459 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc: $302,055 over 8y, 16% of budgetFamilies First of Monroe County Inc: $299,953 over 8y, 30% of budgetIndependent Living Resources Inc: $288,444 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $231,938 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc: $221,228 over 8y, 11% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 624 Gateway Area Council: $194,969 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Wisconsin - Badgerland Council Inc: $190,651 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Sparta Inc: $154,027 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetScenic Bluffs Health Center Inc: $134,418 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCia Siab Inc: $132,319 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetBluff Country Family Resources: $127,782 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetOptions in Reproductive Care Inc: $122,036 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetLa Crescent Area Hcp Healthy Community Partnership: $115,637 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetMobile Meals of la Crosse Inc: $67,598 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetFamily Service Association of Sheboygan Inc: $62,670 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCoulee Children's Center Inc: $49,626 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWorkforce Connections Inc: $31,529 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSemcac: $29,516 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasa for Kids Inc: $15,996 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetConsumer Credit Counseling Services of the Midwest Inc: $6,999 over 1y, 0.2% 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 31.

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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.

La Crosse Community FoundationWI45× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Alm Charities Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · John & Kathy Reinhart Family 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 Great Rivers United Way Inc

How much does Great Rivers United Way Inc give?
Great Rivers United Way Inc reported 27 grants totaling $877,602 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Great Rivers United Way Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Health (21%), Youth Development (19%).
Who are Great Rivers United Way Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Family and Children's Center Inc ($1.0M), New Horizons Shelter and Outreach Centers Inc ($782k), Couleecap Inc ($713k).
Does Great Rivers United Way Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Great Rivers United Way Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include La Crosse Community Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust, Mayo Clinic Group Return.
Where is Great Rivers United Way Inc based?
Great Rivers United Way 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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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