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Racine Community Foundation Inc
The mission of the racine community foundation is to provide funding to racine county's hard working nonprofit organizations by stewarding our endowment to sustain this support for generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 88 grants below total $2,850,406 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,249,137 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $398,731 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH CARE NETWORK INC | $133,266 |
| RACINE ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC | $118,459 |
| GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $113,786 |
| VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION | $100,374 |
| RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $96,537 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS WISCONSIN | $95,736 |
| CITY OF RACINE | $92,557 |
| RACINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM | $72,491 |
| HOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC | $65,113 |
| HOSPITALITY CENTER INC | $64,250 |
| RACINE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $61,252 |
| RACINE FAMILY YMCA | $58,866 |
| VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN | $57,000 |
| RACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $56,328 |
| NAMI RACINE | $54,282 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Racine Community Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
123 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- DCDeKoven Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +265% · 51% of their budget
- HCHEALTH CARE NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +67%
- RARACINE ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $722k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- RCRACINE CHARTER ONE INCone grant, 2018 · $451k · revenue +16%
- PWPROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN TRADES INCone grant, 2023 · $75k
- TBTHE BLUE WAY INCone grant, 2022 · $75k
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 Family Service of Racine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Educational Empowerment 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 38 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
134 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. 134 of the 183 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 DeKoven Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RACINE VOCATIONAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF RACINE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RACINE ↗
- Who funds RACINE CHARTER ONE INC ↗
- Who funds RACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF RACINE INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds READING AND MATH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Racine Friendship Clubhouse ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC ↗
- Who funds FIGHT TO END EXPLOITATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF RACINE COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin ↗
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: United Way of Racine County Inc · Lang Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ec Styberg Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Osborne & Scekic Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Educators Credit Union · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ruffo Family Foundation Inc · Col L C Christensen Charitable and Religious Foundation Inc · United Way of Kenosha County Inc
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 Racine Community Foundation 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.