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.

Incourage Community Foundation Inc

Incourage Community Foundation Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

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.

$891k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$127k

Largest

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.

Philanthropy$2.8MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$1.0MYouth Development$959kHuman Services$696kEmployment$478kHealth$342kReligion$179kOther$0

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 20 grants below total $802,994, the rows itemized in this filing. The $890,656 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $87,662 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 · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $47k
$10k–50k7 grants · $147k
$50k–250k7 grants · $609k

$26,124

Median grant

States reached

$35M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.1M · 26 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.1M

$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+14%

Still filing today

73%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

WH
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $911k · revenue +460%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $772k · revenue +95%
OD
OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +5%

Funded once

SV
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH
one grant, 2023 · $62k
TS
THE SCHOOL AT ALTENBURGS FARM INC
one grant, 2017 · $52k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -8%

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.

University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc

An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…

Education

Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing & Productivity

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.

Education

Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Inc

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.

—

Westconsin Credit Union

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 Women's Business Initiative Corporation

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…

—

Waukesha County Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy

Uwm At Waukesha Foundation Inc

To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus

—

Wisconsin Community Services Inc

Wisconsin community services advocates for justice and community safety, providing innovative opportunities for individuals to overcome adversity.

Crime & Legal

Community Shares of Wisconsin Inc

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.

—

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

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services

Wisconsin Agricultural Education Center Inc

To educate visitors of all ages about how and where their food is produced and why agriculture is so important to them.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of the Wisconsin Rapids Area Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/34

Grantees still filing

21/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,261,109Philanthropy$2,601,605Arts & Culture$1,059,228Youth Development$796,261Employment$478,269Community Improvement$388,000Health$157,396

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation IncWI32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Incourage Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Incourage Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report 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.

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