· Public charity
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.
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 5 grants below total $36,260 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $165,460 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $129,200 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY23–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- GLGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $420k · revenue +28%
- GOGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +33%
- OEONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- CICOULEECAP INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +113%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +43%
- LCLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +36%
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.
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…
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,…
Supporting the tax exempt purpose of lutheran social services of wisconsin and upper michigan, inc.
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.
To promote residential construction in the greater la crosse area.
To be a progressive business resource, growing companies and developing leaders through collaboration, advocacy, information, and services that benefit current and future businesses.
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.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
The purpose of this non-profit organization is to develop and implement workforce development strategies that support business and industry primarily in our region of vermont (chittenden county) and statewide. these strategies include the…
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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 Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COULEECAP INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of 7 Rivers Region Inc ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE GREATER LACROSSE REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FIGHT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Alm Charities Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214 · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Locher Family Foundation Trust Xxxxxx1227
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 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.
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.