· Public charity
Marshfield Clinic Health System Inc
We enrich lives to create healthy communities through accessible, affordable, compassionate health care.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $496,476 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $667,534 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $171,058 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $346k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHFIELD AREA UNITED WAY | $80,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY | $39,513 |
| MARSHFIELD AREA YMCA | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY | $25,000 |
| VILAS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP | $20,000 |
| TOWN OF BOULDER JUNCTION | $15,000 |
| MARATHON COUNTY HEALTH DEPT | $11,000 |
| MARSHFIELD AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $10,025 |
| MED CARE ACCESS COALITION OF DICKINSON IRON CTYS | $10,000 |
| CHILDCARING INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF RICE LAKE INC | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WAUSAU WI | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BARRON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GOOD NEWS PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- MAMARSHFIELD AREA UNITED WAY5× · 2017–2023 · $473k · revenue +12%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $171k · revenue +4%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL THRIFT STORE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $70k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MARSHFIELDone grant, 2018 · $250k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2019 · $200k
- RLRICE LAKE AQUATICS AND RECREATIONAL CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +10%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hola Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 70 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 MARSHFIELD AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD AREA YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds RICE LAKE AQUATICS AND RECREATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL THRIFT STORE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DODGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds VILAS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOR ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RICE LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MARSHFIELD ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PRICE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN STATE FAIR ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ↗
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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Wisconsin Agency on Aging Resources Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Marshfield Clinic Inc · Security Health Plan of Wisconsin Inc · Eau Claire Community Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Abc Foundation Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust
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 Clinic Health System Inc 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.