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La Crosse Community Foundation
Connecting people, passion, and giving in the la crosse area forever.
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 122 grants below total $4,638,024 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,346,496 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $708,472 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 $10k33 grants · $236k
- $10k–50k67 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSSE | $599,877 |
| HMOOB CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY AGENCY INC | $303,500 |
| NEXT STEPS FOR CHANGE INC | $270,000 |
| FIRST TEENS CLOTHES CLOSET OF FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $232,264 |
| LA CROSSE LIGHTHOUSE INC | $181,478 |
| SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE | $151,500 |
| LA CROSSE COMMUNITY NONPROFITS INITIATIVE | $139,774 |
| COULEECAP INC | $105,653 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC | $94,000 |
| GUNDERSEN MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $92,130 |
| RIVERSIDE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP GARDENS | $81,300 |
| LA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $80,077 |
| OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE | $77,500 |
| YWCA LA CROSSE | $73,750 |
| LA CROSSE COUNTY | $72,393 |
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, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 86 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 35 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $996k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +299%
- CICOULEECAP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $827k · revenue +107%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese7× · 2017–2024 · $708k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- LCLA CRESCENT AREA EVENT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $502k · revenue +97%
- BHBOUNTIFUL HARVEST OF FAITH MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2021 · $97k
- OVOTHER VARIOUS 5000one grant, 2019 · $90k
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.
To support university of wisconsin la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
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.
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…
The purpose of the corporation shall be to actively facilitate and promote economic development and business retention in the la crosse area. this shall be accomplished by focusing on the "triad of development": the attraction of industry,…
Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To be a progressive business resource, growing companies and developing leaders through collaboration, advocacy, information, and services that benefit current and future businesses.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Children's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is La Crosse Lions Charities 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
158 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. 158 of the 219 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS ↗
- Who funds COULEECAP INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE OF THE SEVEN RIVERS REGION INC ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LA CRESCENT AREA EVENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE ALUMNI & FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 624 GATEWAY AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAFER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEPS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds HMOOB CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK LEADERS ACQUIRING COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE (BLACK) INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YWCA LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE GREATER LACROSSE REGION INC ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Community Theatre ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF WESTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Hunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KARUNAINC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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: Mayo Clinic Group Return · Alm Charities Inc · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Great Rivers United Way Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214
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 La Crosse Community Foundation 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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