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MARINE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION
The mcu foundation was founded to make a positive difference in the communities served by mcu through charitable donations and initiatives that increase financial literacy.
$165k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
1
Communities
$9k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Health$420kHuman Services$35kMembership Benefit$30kYouth Development$22kPhilanthropy$19kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$10kFood & Nutrition$6kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$33k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
technical
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
giving
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FEED MY PEOPLE$9,200
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$7,500
- THE GOOD FIGHT$7,000
- GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND$6,310
- ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION$6,250
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$484k · 5 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +151% since the first grant, against +94% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
8
Total granted
$484k
$85k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+151%
+94%
Still filing today
100%
88%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthMembership BenefitEducationOther
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
- GLGUNDERSON LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2021 · $420k · revenue +28%
- GOGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +151%
- OEONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +561%
Funded once
- CICOULEECAP INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +107%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +13846%
- LCLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of
Education
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La Crosse City Vision Foundation Inc
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3
La Crosse Area Builders Association
To promote residential construction in the greater la crosse area.
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4
La Crosse Public Education Foundation I
The mission of the la crosse public education foundation is to enhance learning opportunities for students in the school district of la crosse and to promote community understanding and support for public education.
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5
Greater La Crosse Area Chamber
To be a progressive business resource, growing companies and developing leaders through collaboration, advocacy, information, and services that benefit current and future business
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Women's Fund of Greater La Crosse Inc
Women's fund of greater la crosse exists to impact all women and girls in our community by supporting organizations with the collective power of philanthropy.
Philanthropy
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La Crosse Area Development Corp
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,…
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8
Gundersen Lutheran Health System Inc
To support gundersen lutheran medical center, inc. and gundersen clinic, ltd. and/or their affiliates' programs of health care, medical education, medical research and community health promotion activities within the meaning of sec…
Health
9
Children's Museum of La Crosse Inc
To provide a hands-on, interactive environment for all children and a family place where the young and the young at heart can explore, create, experiment and exercise their imaginations.
Arts & Culture
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Greater Laporte Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of commerce for laporte, indiana
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Ywca La Crosse Inc
Eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Human Services
12
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Couleecap Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$419,812Human Services$35,315Other$53,800Membership Benefit$30,000Youth Development$21,720Philanthropy$19,250Housing & Shelter$13,000
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 GUNDERSON LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COULEECAP INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND ↗
- Who funds ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE 7 RIVERS REGION INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FIGHT ↗
- Who funds WAFER INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA CRESCENT AREA EVENT CENTER 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.
La Crosse Community FoundationWI24.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Locher Family Foundation Trust 1045001227 · Tpi Foundation Inc 1045002342 · Alm Charities Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Dahl Family Foundation 1035006214 · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn 1035004172
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 organisation MARINE CREDIT UNION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~19 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 264705880 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 19 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Marine Credit Union Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Marine Credit Union Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines