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Northwoods United Way

The NORTHWOODS UNITED WAY, inc is a locally directed organization, working to improve lives in forest, oneida, price and vilas counties by mobilizing community resources and strategically investing in human service programs.

$80k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$12k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$232k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Northwoods United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$12k0%
FY20234$30k25%
FY20221$126k100%
FY20219$64k22%
FY20208$61k38%
FY20197$51k0%
FY20187$64k0%
FY20179$72kn/a
98% 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$224kHousing & Shelter$38kFood & Nutrition$37kPhilanthropy$29kYouth Development$20kHealth$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Northwoods United Way by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tri-County Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Inc$72,00072%
Headwaters Foundation Inc$41,000329%
Personal Essentials Pantry$37,0006n/a
Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc$34,50050%
Northwoods Alliance for Temporary Housing Inc$32,25053%
Headwaters Inc$29,25031%
United Way of Marathon County Inc$28,74850%
Children's Service Society of Wisconsin$22,00030%
Camp Fire USA Oneida Council Inc$13,00026%
Boyscouts of America 627 Samoset Council$7,00010%
Northwoods Share Inc$7,00017%
Lac de Flambeau Domestic Abuse$6,0001n/a
Alzheimers Association$5,5001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($144k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Northwoods United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTri-County Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Inc: $72,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetHeadwaters Foundation Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc: $34,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwoods Alliance for Temporary Housing Inc: $32,250 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHeadwaters Inc: $29,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Marathon County Inc: $28,748 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Service Society of Wisconsin: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Fire USA Oneida Council Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBoyscouts of America 627 Samoset Council: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwoods Share Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Northwoods United Way

How much does Northwoods United Way give?
Northwoods United Way reported 2 itemized grants totaling $12,000, out of $80,450 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Northwoods United Way fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Housing & Shelter (8%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are Northwoods United Way's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Tri-County Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Inc ($72k), Headwaters Foundation Inc ($41k), Personal Essentials Pantry ($37k).
Does Northwoods United Way fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northwoods United Way?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Northwoods United Way based?
Northwoods United Way is based in WI.

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 16 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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