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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. In the more than three decades since, incourage has adapted its work to meet the changing and complex needs of a rural region recovering from significant disinvestment.…
- $891k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $803k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $26,124
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $126,513
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Incourage Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $803k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $892k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $854k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $853k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $704k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $874k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $709k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $778k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc | $1,289,250 | 8 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc | $911,009 | 8 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Wisconsin Rapids Area Inc | $771,809 | 8 | 15% |
| Opportunity Development Centers Inc | $478,269 | 8 | 1% |
| Community Property Inc | $388,000 | 8 | 57% |
| Wisconsin Rapids Area Senior Center Assoc Inc | $259,582 | 8 | 66% |
| Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools | $214,236 | 7 | n/a |
| Assumption Catholic Schools Inc | $203,487 | 8 | n/a |
| Wood County Health Department-Wi | $189,204 | 8 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Rapids Family Center Inc | $170,672 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 42 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Incourage Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Incourage Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Incourage Community Foundation Inc give?
- Incourage Community Foundation Inc reported 20 itemized grants totaling $802,994, out of $890,656 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Incourage Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (32%), Education (23%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Incourage Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: International Scholarship and Tuition Services Inc ($1.3M), Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc ($911k), Boys & Girls Club of the Wisconsin Rapids Area Inc ($772k).
- Does Incourage Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Incourage Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Incourage Community Foundation Inc based?
- Incourage Community Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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