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Marshfield Area United Way

MARSHFIELD AREA UNITED WAY's (mauw) mission is to increase the community's capacity to care for one another.

$504k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.3MFood & Nutrition$562kHealth$516kCommunity Improvement$317kHousing & Shelter$104kEducation$103kCrime & Legal$85kYouth Development$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $490,710, the rows itemized in this filing. The $503,710 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$38,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER$100,000
CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$100,000
NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM$47,250
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS$41,125
MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC (HOME DELIVERED MEALS)$40,960
SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY$38,750
MEMORY LANE FARM$35,250
MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER$32,000
CHILDCARING INC$23,750
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MARSHFIELD$13,875
SPENCER KIDS GROUP$12,500
HART EQUINE THERAPEUTIC CENTER$5,250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $118k → 11%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $110k → 11%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $104k → 11%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $102k → 11%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 11%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 11%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $100k → 11%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $94k → 11%SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY: $39k → 11%SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY: $39k → 11%SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY: $36k → 11%SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY: $35k → 11%SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY: $35k → 11%SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY: $33k → 11%MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER: $32k → 11%MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER: $32k → 11%MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER: $32k → 11%MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER: $32k → 11%MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER: $30k → 11%MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER: $29k → 11%SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY: $28k → 11%MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER: $25k → 11%MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER: $24k → 11%SOUP OR SOCKS PANTRY: $21k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 15 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
4

Total granted

$3.9M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+52%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PD
    PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $828k · revenue +86%
  • CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $706k · revenue +63%
  • NC
    NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $317k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL THRIFT STORE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +106%
  • MC
    MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • HC
    HANNAH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +52%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Child Care Centers of Marshfield Inc

The organization's primary mission is to provide child care and a child and adult care food program for the city of marshfield and the surrounding communities.

Human Services
2
SWR1 Inc

Organize, operate and maintain a care center in southwestern wisconsin for the elderly and infirm.

Health
3
Marshfield Clinic Health System Foundation Inc

We enrich lives to create healthy communities through accessible, affordable, compassionate health care.

Health
4
People Care Inc

Our goal is to have a significant and positive influence on each child in our care.

Human Services
5
Mchs Hospitals Inc

We enrich lives to create healthy communities through accessible, affordable, compassionate health care.

Health
6
Wisconsin Illinois Senior Housing Inc

The primary purpose is to provide skilled nursing and assisted living facilities for aged individuals.

Health
7
Wausau Child Care Inc

The mission of wausau child care inc. is to strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.

Human Services
8
Good Shepherd Services Ltd

Good shepherd services is a faith-based campus that provides health and social services to those we serve including our community. we are dedicated to serving those entrusted to us with dignity, respect and compassion, in a safe and…

Human Services
9
Bernies Place Inc Wis Union Day Care Ctr

Childcare services for about 60 children with lunch and snack programs.

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10
Reedsburg Area Senior Life Center Inc

Reedsburg area senior life center, inc. always there going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality and efficient healthcare.

Housing & Shelter
11
Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Lakeview Medical Center Inc of Rice Lake

We enrich lives to create healthy communities through accessible, affordable, compassionate health care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marshfield Clinic Health System Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN: $705,527 · OtherCHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSINBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WOOD COUNTY INC: $295,822 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WOOD COUNTY INCST JOSEPH'S DIETARY SERVICES (HOME DELIVERED MEALS): $181,179 · OtherST JOSEPH'S DIETARY SERVICES (HOME DELIVERED…CHILDCARING INC: $179,756 · OtherCHILDCARING INCSCHOOL DISTRICT OF MARSHFIELD: $127,506 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF MARSHFIELD+6 more: $68,625 · OtherPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $827,982 · Human ServicesPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCSOUP OR SOCKS INC: $264,753 · Human ServicesSOUP OR SOCKS INCMARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER INC: $235,550 · Human ServicesMARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER I…MARSHFIELD CLINIC INC: $443,836 · HealthMARSHFIELD CL…+1 more: $15,000 · HealthNORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $316,750 · Community ImprovementNORTH CEN…MEMORY LANE FARM INC: $143,030 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC: $21,750 · Youth DevelopmentSPENCER KIDS GROUP INC: $84,875 · Crime & LegalMARY'S PLACE BOARDING HOUSE INC: $73,200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,558,415Human Services$1,328,285Health$458,836Community Improvement$316,750Youth Development$164,780Crime & Legal$84,875Housing & Shelter$73,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $827,982 over 8y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN: $705,527 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC INC: $443,836 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $316,750 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WOOD COUNTY INC: $295,822 over 8y, 41% of budgetSOUP OR SOCKS INC: $264,753 over 8y, 32% of budgetMARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER INC: $235,550 over 8y, 30% of budgetCHILDCARING INC: $179,756 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetMEMORY LANE FARM INC: $143,030 over 5y, 37% of budgetSPENCER KIDS GROUP INC: $84,875 over 8y, 15% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC: $21,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHART EQUINE THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC: $5,250 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY FOUNDATION UW-MARSHFIELD WOOD COUNTY INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marshfield Area Commu…Green Bay Packers Fou…Weber Charitable Foun…Otto Bremer TrustLand O'Lakes Foundati…United Way of Maratho…Nelson-Jameson Founda…Ba & Esther Greenheck…Community Foundation …Church Mutual Insuran…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Marshfield Area Community Foundation IncWI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marshfield Area Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Weber Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · United Way of Marathon County Inc · Nelson-Jameson Foundation Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marshfield Area United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marshfield Area United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Marshfield Area United Way?

    Find your warmest path to Marshfield Area United Way through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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