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Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc

To support gundersen lutheran health system, inc.'s programs of health care, medical education, medical research and community health promotion activities within the meaning of section 509(a)(3) of the irc; borrowing and lending of funds and property, engaging in financial transactions with and/or on behalf of the gundersen lutheran…

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$17MEducation$1.4MPhilanthropy$875kHuman Services$471kCommunity Improvement$283kPublic Benefit$223kYouth Development$213kHousing & Shelter$195kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $892,282, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,119,146 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $226,864 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $367k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $492k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARC INC$165,000
LA CROSSE AREA FAMILY YMCA$77,500
SAINT CLARE HEALTH MISSION$75,000
LA CROSSE MEDICAL HEALTH SCIENCE CONSORTIUM$68,304
GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY$55,750
MINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE$50,000
LA CROSSE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$35,050
NEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS$35,000
KARUNA INC$35,000
FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER$30,000
LA CROSSE COUNTY TREASURER$30,000
SUNFLOWER CHILD DEVLOPMENT CENTER$25,000
CIA SIAB INC$20,000
LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$20,000
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC$20,000
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 (FY18–25, $558k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEMCAC: $23k → 8%SUNFLOWER CHILD DEVLOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS WI: $10k → 10%SUNFLOWER CHILD DEVLP: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS WI: $10k → 10%SUNFLOWER CHILD DEVLPMT CTR: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS WISCONSIN: $10k → 10%YWCA LA CROSSE: $7k → 12%SUNFLOWER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS WISCONSIN: $10k → 10%YWCA LA CROSSE: $6k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY: $12k → 14%YWCA LA CROSSE: $6k → 12%CASA FOR KIDS INC: $22k → 12%CASA FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $50k → 12%KARUNA INC: $35k → 12%KARUNA INC: $35k → 12%KARUNA INC: $35k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $30k → 12%THE GOOD FIGHT COMM CTR: $25k → 12%THE GOOD FIGHT COMM CTR: $25k → 12%CIA SIAB INC: $20k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $14k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $11k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $10k → 12%THE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $10k → 12%APTIV FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%Aptive FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%APTIVE FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 45 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
29

Total granted

$21M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

91%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • GL
    Gundersen Lutheran Health System Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $15M · revenue +398% · 100% of their budget
  • GR
    GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $807k · revenue +37%
  • LC
    LA CROSSE MEDICAL HEALTH SCIENCE CONSORTIUM INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $609k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PL
    PALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $312k · revenue +19%
  • SB
    SCENIC BLUFFS HEALTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $238k · revenue +99%
  • MH
    MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF BOSCOBEL
    one grant, 2021 · $196k · revenue +23%
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
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

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2
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health
3
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
4
Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc

Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.

Health
5
La Pine Community Health Center

La pine community health center improves lives in our community through accessible and affordable healthcare provided with kindness, integrity, and respect.

Health
6
Caring Cross Inc

Caring cross is focused upon accelerating the development and implementation of advanced medicines like car-t cell and stem cell gene therapies. in partnership with like-minded stakeholders, caring cross develops and deploys technologies,…

Health
7
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
8
Lad Lake Inc

The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.

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9
La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc

La clinica provides primary and preventive medical, dental, behavioral health, and other health promotion services to underserved and low-income patients.

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10
Kenosha Community Health Center Inc

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…

Health
11
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
12
Willamette Vital Health

We provide comprehensive hospice care services, supportive care for pain & symptom management for those with serious illness, and grief support. through our mission, willamette vital health supports adults and children living with a…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Children's Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of the Great Rivers 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

65 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. 65 of the 79 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
40/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gundersen Lutheran Health System Inc: $14,845,665 · HealthGundersen Lutheran Health System Inc+12 more: $1,636,062 · Health+12 moreSCHOOL DISTRICT OF LA CROSSE: $1,258,652 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT …VERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $270,000 · OtherVERNON AREA REHA…La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $232,500 · OtherLa Crosse Area F…GREATER LA CROSSE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $227,484 · OtherGREATER LA CROSS…ST JOSEPH'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $206,200 · OtherST JOSEPH'S MEMO…LA CROSSE COUNTY AGING UNIT: $160,000 · OtherCITY OF LA CROSSE PARKS REC & FOR: $140,800 · Other+31 more: $748,413 · Other+31 moreGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $807,318 · PhilanthropyLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $55,750 · PhilanthropyLA CROSSE MEDICAL HEALTH SCIENCE CONSORTIUM INC: $609,051 · EducationMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION: $137,500 · Education+1 more: $9,000 · EducationFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $124,500 · Human ServicesKARUNAINC: $105,000 · Human ServicesSUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 · Human ServicesCASA FOR KIDS INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesSEMCAC: $23,000 · Human ServicesAPTIV FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Human Services+3 more: $51,325 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $113,600 · Youth Development1000 Generations Inc: $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc: $19,750 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentWAFER INC: $55,875 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $23,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$16,481,727Other$3,244,049Philanthropy$938,568Education$755,551Human Services$633,325Youth Development$206,850Food & Nutrition$78,875

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 budgetGundersen Lutheran Health System Inc: $14,845,665 over 6y, 100% of budgetGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $807,318 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetLA CROSSE MEDICAL HEALTH SCIENCE CONSORTIUM INC: $609,051 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC: $434,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetPALMER LUTHERAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $312,327 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $270,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSCENIC BLUFFS HEALTH CENTER INC: $238,157 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $232,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER LA CROSSE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $227,484 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetST JOSEPH'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $206,200 over 5y, 15% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF BOSCOBEL: $196,078 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTomah Memorial Hospital: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGE SOUTHEAST FOUNDATION: $137,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $124,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $113,600 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetKARUNAINC: $105,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSUNFLOWER CHILDCARE CENTER INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $86,400 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetCOULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC: $78,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC: $65,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $60,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAFER INC: $55,875 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHOPE RESTORES CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetOPTIONS IN REPRODUCTIVE CARE INC: $49,969 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PARENTING PLACE INC: $47,710 over 5y, 0.4% of budget7 RIVERS ALLIANCE INC: $42,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC: $41,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLA CROSSE AREA DEVELOPMENT CORP: $39,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budget1000 Generations Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTELLURIAN INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA FOR KIDS INC: $32,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLa Crosse Community Theatre: $24,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSEMCAC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAPTIV FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLA CROSSE NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $21,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetDRIFT SHARE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCIA SIAB INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc: $19,750 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE GREATER LACROSSE REGION INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA LA CROSSE INC: $19,325 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Mayo Clinic Group Ret…La Crosse Community F…Alm Charities IncCleary-Kumm Foundatio…Lyche Family Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustGreat Rivers United W…Smith Russell & Vera …Sue Anne Gelatt Found…The Pmg Foundation In…Green Bay Packers Fou…Xcel Energy Foundation
Mayo Clinic Group ReturnMN82.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mayo Clinic Group Return · La Crosse Community Foundation · Alm Charities Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Great Rivers United Way Inc · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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