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Incourage Community Foundation Inc
Founded as a traditional community foundation in 1993, incourage evolved into an entrepreneurial nonprofit, dedicated to and led by the people of central wisconsin.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $802,994 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $890,656 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,662 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $609k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC | $126,513 |
| INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES | $121,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA INC | $105,983 |
| OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $69,884 |
| ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $66,338 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH | $60,631 |
| COMMUNITY PROPERTY INC | $58,000 |
| WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA SENIOR CENTER ASSOCIATION INC | $35,985 |
| WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC | $26,432 |
| AGING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $26,124 |
| PARK PLACE ADULT DAY SERVICES INC | $21,055 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SAMOSET COUNCIL INC | $13,926 |
| ASSUMPTION FOUNDATION INC | $13,746 |
| CENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC | $10,081 |
| WISCONSIN RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $8,841 |
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, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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; $61k 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
- WHWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $911k · revenue +460%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $772k · revenue +114%
- ODOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $62k
- TSTHE SCHOOL AT ALTENBURGS FARM INCone grant, 2017 · $52k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -8%
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.
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We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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…
To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
Wisconsin community services advocates for justice and community safety, providing innovative opportunities for individuals to overcome adversity.
The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.
Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…
Community shares of wisconsin (csw), together with its donors and approximately 70 member nonprofits, addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of the Wisconsin Rapids Area Inc and the most unlike its peers is Park Place Adult Day Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 47 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PROPERTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA SENIOR CENTER ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALEX C DOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PLACE ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING OUR COMMUNITIES WITH UNITED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL AT ALTENBURGS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD & ADAMS COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Council on Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL RIVERS FARMSHED INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FIRE & EMS MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE BOARDING HOUSE 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: Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Aspirus Riverview Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Jasperson Family Foundation Inc · Alexander Charitable Foundationinc · Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc · United Way of South Wood & Adams Counties Inc
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 Incourage Community 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.
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