· Public charity
Marshfield Area United Way
MARSHFIELD AREA UNITED WAY's (mauw) mission is to increase the community's capacity to care for one another.
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 12 grants below total $490,710 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $503,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,000 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $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 |
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, $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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PDPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $828k · revenue +86%
CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN8× · 2017–2024 · $706k · revenue +63%- NCNORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $317k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL THRIFT STORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +123%
- MCMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +31%
- HCHANNAH CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +52%
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.
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.
We enrich lives to create healthy communities through accessible, affordable, compassionate health care.
Provide meals and social svcs to senior citizens
The mission of marshall county healthcare center is to oversee that the full continuum of quality healthcare services is made available to the people in its region.
Organize, operate and maintain a care center in southwestern wisconsin for the elderly and infirm.
Homeless shelter with supportive services
Children's wisconsin, provides a comprehensive and integrated pediatric health care model that delivers superior quality and value by offering the best solution for the total health care needs of children within our community, state and…
Our goal is to have a significant and positive influence on each child in our care.
Wicp provides care for elders who are cognitively impared or functionally impared. the care is provided in half or full day sessions while under the care of a professional staff.
Reedsburg area senior life center, inc. always there going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality and efficient healthcare.
Provide daycare services for children of surrounding area.
The primary purpose is to provide skilled nursing and assisted living facilities for aged individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marshfield Clinic Health System 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.
19 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. 19 of the 21 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 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WOOD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUP OR SOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD AREA RESPITE CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARING INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORY LANE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER KIDS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE BOARDING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL THRIFT STORE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HANNAH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HART EQUINE THERAPEUTIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION UW-MARSHFIELD WOOD COUNTY 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: 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
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 Marshfield Area United Way 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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