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Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $955k
- $250k+13 grants · $7.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CE | $975,000 |
| DISCOVER ROME AREA FAMILY TRAILS | $938,992 |
| SOUTH WOOD CO HUMANE SOCIETY | $800,000 |
| RAPIDS AREA SOCCER INC | $566,000 |
| AGING & DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER | $525,935 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| VILLAGE OF PORT EDWARDS | $500,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD & ADAMS CO | $500,000 |
| CITY OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS | $360,000 |
| WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | $358,858 |
| HISTORIC POINT BASSE INC | $350,000 |
| WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC | $250,000 |
| WOOD COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DPT | $160,400 |
| WOOD COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES DPT | $160,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- ARASPIRUS RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC6× · 2018–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +37%
- ODOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC6× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +14%
- AHASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $900k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MPMARY'S PLACE BOARDING HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $2.2M
- COCITY OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS - MCMILLANone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- FHFAMILY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
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.
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
Service for disabled adults
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Whpc acquires, preserves and develops low-income and affordable housing in wisconsin. the majority of the housing is subsidized through the u.s. department of housing and urban development, u.s.d.a. rural development, federal and state…
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
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…
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…
The mission of central wisconsin community action council, inc. (cwcac) is to provide opportunities for services which help low-income individuals and families within our service area achieve self-sufficiency and independence.
The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…
To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Rapids Family Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mary's Place Boarding House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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 61 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 ASPIRUS RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE BOARDING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVER ROME AREA FAMILY TRAILS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAPIDS AREA SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC POINT BASSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S CROSSING INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RAPIDS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELS OF INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS4KIDS 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: Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Incourage Community Foundation Inc · Aspirus Riverview Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · United Way of South Wood & Adams Counties Inc · Jasperson Family Foundation Inc · Seramur Family Foundation 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 Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc 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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