· Private foundation
Rcu Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE | $230,000 |
| ST CROIX VALLEY FOOD BANK | $150,000 |
| OPERATION HELP | $150,000 |
| WISCONSIN FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| TREE TRUST | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF D R MOON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $110,000 |
| LAKESHORE PLAYERS INC | $100,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ST CROIX VALLEY INC | $75,000 |
| NEWTRAX INC | $72,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WILLOW RIVER-KINNICKINNNIC STATE PARKS | $50,000 |
| CVTC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHIPPEWA HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| EAU CLAIRE COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| DUNN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 13 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $400k · revenue +153%- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE INC2× · 2021–2024 · $313k · revenue +34%
- FMFEED MY PEOPLE INC3× · 2017–2021 · $240k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- LPLE PHILLIPS LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $500k
- UFUWEC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $400k
- FOFRIENDS OF WILLOW RIVERone grant, 2019 · $250k
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.
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
The chippewa area history center works to preserve local history and make it available to the public.
To protect and preserve natural and scenic land in chippewa county and the surrounding area.
To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
To promote and foster awareness of economic development and civic issues in the heart of the valley area of wisconsin
Community shares of wisconsin (csw), together with its donors and approximately 70 member nonprofits, addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research and public education.
To honor and celebrate our rich theatrical heritage while establishing a sustainable foundation for the years to come.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
The phipps center for the arts, propelled by our community-based arts council, serves as a welcoming and open home for the st. croix river valley region and beyond, empowering and cultivating lifelong artistic expression, participation and…
To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
We improve lives and build stronger chippewa valley communities by bringing resources together to advance the common good.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chippewa Valley Health Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sofas for Service 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 83 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Tree Trust ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HELP INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERWOOD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF D R MOON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDFORD AREA FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ST CROIX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTRAX INC ↗
- Who funds Washington County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WESTFIELDS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BELWIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WESTFIELDS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LE PHILLIPS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Willow River-Kinnickinnic State Parks ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS 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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Annmarie Foundation Inc · Eau Claire Community Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · Pablo Foundation Inc · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Westconsin Credit Union · Community Foundation of Chippewa Co · Hugh J Andersen 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 Rcu 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.
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