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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 FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $12,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $80,450 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $68,450 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.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$232k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUS$6,000
NATH - FREDRICK PLACE$6,000
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, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NORTHWOODS SHARE: $7k → 10%TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $12k → 12%TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $12k → 12%TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUS: $11k → 12%TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $11k → 12%TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUS: $9k → 12%HEADWATERS INC: $9k → 12%HEADWATERS INC: $8k → 12%YMCA OF THE NORTHWOODS: $8k → 12%YMCA OF THE NORTHWOODS: $8k → 12%YMCA SAFETY AROUND WATER: $7k → 12%TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUS: $6k → 12%YMCA OF THE NORTHWOODS: $6k → 12%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$322k · 10 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$322k
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+94%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +55%
  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +287%
  • NA
    NORTHWOODS ALLIANCE FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $126k
  • BO
    BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -16%
  • NS
    NORTHWOODS SHARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +94%
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
Northwoods Village Inc

Creating homes by bringing safe and affordable housing opportunities to seniors and persons with disabilities in accordance with the charitable Works and traditions of the Roman Catholic Church. Works are carried out in accordance with…

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2
Northwoods Inc of Wisconsin

Service for disabled adults

Human Services
3
Northwood Health Systems

To provide services to individuals with mental illness, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and or substance abuse issues.

Health
4
Northwoods Partners

To provide resources that promote independence and healthy aging.

Human Services
5
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.

Philanthropy
6
Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc

To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.

Human Services
7
Barron County Developmental Services Inc

To provide person-centered services to adults based on the needs of each individual so that they are able to live their lives to the fullest. Catholic Charities Bureau Affiliates are organized to maintain, operate and conduct directly or…

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8
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…

Human Services
9
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
10
Harwood Place Inc

Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.

Housing & Shelter
11
North Central Community Action Program Inc

The mission of NCCAP is to act as an advocate, provider, and facilitator of programs and services for low-income individuals in Lincoln, Marathon, and Wood Counties (WI). NCCAP seeks to create opportunities for people and communities to…

Community Improvement
12
Christian Community Homes and Services Inc Group Return

We are a nonprofit, faith-based organization offering senior living communities dedicated to serving individuals in ways that reflect the importance of each unique life.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc; the most unlike its peers is Northwoods Share 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $126,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEADWATERS FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 · OtherHEADWATERS FOUNDATION INCPERSONAL ESSENTIALS PANTRY: $37,000 · OtherPERSONAL ESSENTIALS PANTRYCHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN: $22,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSINCAMP FIRE USA ONEIDA COUNCIL INC: $13,000 · OtherNATH - FREDRICK PLACE: $12,000 · Other+4 more: $24,500 · Other+4 moreTRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC: $72,000 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VI…Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc: $34,500 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association …HEADWATERS INC: $29,250 · Human ServicesHEADWATERS INCNORTHWOODS SHARE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWOODS ALLIANCE FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING INC: $32,250 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $28,748 · Philanthropy
Other$275,500Human Services$142,750Housing & Shelter$32,250Philanthropy$28,748

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

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
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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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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