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It's Possible Foundation Inc
THE FOUNDATION MAKES GRANTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING A WIDE ARRAY OF SERVICES RELATING TO THE ARTS, EDUCATION, ANIMAL WELFARE, PHYSICAL FITNESS AND CHILDREN.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIABETES YOUTH FOUNDATION OF INDIANA | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA | $20,000 |
| SS PETER AND PAUL CATHEDRAL INDIANAPOLIS INC | $15,000 |
| GREEN CARES FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREEN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CHEMICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS WITH HANDICAPS INC (ARCH) | $10,000 |
| GREEN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| JDRF INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| SIGNATURE PRODUCTIONS | $1,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF GREEN COUNTY LTD | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of It's Possible 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, 77% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 46% — 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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER AREA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +12%
- GCGREEN CARES FOOD PANTRY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +7%
- GCGreen County Humane Society2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- WAWISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +44%
- TTTOMAHAWK TOGETHER INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- COCITY OF EVANSVILLEone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
Produce theater performances for community
Our mission is to foster compassionate human and animal connections; forge safe, healthy, and thriving communities for animals; provide care and transitional sheltering to animals; provide leadership and guidance to the animal sheltering…
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
Waukesha civic theatre provide quality live theatre performances and education that enrich, challenge and entertain both participants and audience members
Community theatre.
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
Making the arts accessible to all
The organization ignites positive change in the cultural, social and economic vitality of its community by creating world-class theater experiences that entertain, provoke and inspire meaningful dialogue among an audience representative of…
Weidner center presents, inc. primary purpose is to aid in providing educational, cultural and artistic programming for the weidner center for the performing arts which is located on the university of wisconsin - green bay campus
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cal Center Presents. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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.
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- Who funds DIABETES YOUTH FOUNDATION OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
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- Who funds GREEN CARES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds TOMAHAWK TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Green County Humane Society ↗
- Who funds VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON CAT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Signature Productions ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds RED ROCK SEARCH AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds VERONA AREA COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CAL CENTER PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds VEGAS ROOTS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ULMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERONA AREA PERFORMING ARTS SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds SUN PRAIRIE CIVIC THEATRE CORP ↗
- Who funds BENEDICTINE LIFE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN 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.
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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 It's Possible 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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