· Public charity
Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation Inc
To inspire collaboration, mobilize resources and encourage innovation that measurably contributes to the wellbeing of our communities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of GREATER WATERTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $480k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $557k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA | $3,687,189 |
| ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC | $254,850 |
| WATERTOWN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $121,000 |
| WI ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH | $113,140 |
| MADISON COLLEGE | $107,371 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY | $105,113 |
| READING & MATH INC (WISCONSIN READING CORPS) | $60,000 |
| MARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC | $50,399 |
| GLACIAL HERITAGE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP | $39,692 |
| RAINBOW HOSPICE | $39,552 |
| WATERLOO SCHOOL DISTRICT | $36,300 |
| ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| LAKE MILLS MORAVIAN CHURCH | $32,000 |
| TRINITY ST LUKE'S | $30,000 |
| WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION (WECA) | $27,207 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GCGLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +148%
- RRROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +431%
- WFWatertown Family Connections Inc5× · 2018–2023 · $382k · revenue +210% · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF JEFFERSON LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $172k
- COCITY OF JUNEAUone grant, 2022 · $162k
- VOVILLAGE OF JOHNSON CREAKone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
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…
The organization's primary mission is to provide child care and a child and adult care food program for the city of marshfield and the surrounding communities.
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Kenosha community health center, inc.'s purpose is to provide primary care and referral health services to disadvantaged and underserved populations and promote and ensure that basic primary health services are accessible to uninsured and…
Provide child care services to middle to low income families located in a financially distressed rural and lower populated southwestern wisconsin region
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The wcmp will grow and nurture the mep's impact in the state of wisconsin by engaging and aligning the best possible resources to help small and medium-sized manufacturers reach their potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rock River Community Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jefferson Chamber of Commerce. 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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
43 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. 43 of the 77 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds GLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Watertown Family Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds READING AND MATH INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 Generations Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL HERITAGE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP D/B/A THRIVE ED ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Gathering Source Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone of Grace ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON AND DODGE COUNTIES WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds MARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Gingerbread Preschool & Child Care Center Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Fort Healthcare Inc · United Way of Dodge County Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Lake Mills Area Community Foundation Inc · Joseph and Sharon Darcey Foundation · Earl and Eugenia Quirk Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation
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 Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation Inc 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.
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.