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Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Environment$535kHousing & Shelter$100kHealth$30kPublic Benefit$20kHuman Services$19kYouth Development$10kEmployment$10kAnimals$8k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $27,215 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $50,708 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,493 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGRACE HOSPICE CARE$20,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$7,215
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MUSKEGO SENIOR TAXI SERVICE INC: $10k → 5%COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD INC: $9k → 9%EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS: $10k → 10%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $10k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $7k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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2
Vna Assisted Living Inc

Providing elderly housing and assistance to eligible clients in northeast wisconsin.

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3
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
4
The Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development Inc

The partnership is committed to housing for everyone because it's essential for building healthy communities. we build effective public-private partnerships to expand access to affordable housing options. we do this by directly developing…

Recreation & Sports
5
Madison Community Cooperative

Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Education
6
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment
7
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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8
Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment
9
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
10
Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin Inc

Provide public interest legal/advocacy services to ensure effective and democratic representation of residential, farm, and small business utility customers before regulatory agencies, the legislature, the courts, and other public…

Community Improvement
11
Center for Healthcare Careers of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…

Health
12
University Research Park Incorporated

The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldo Leopold Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Ice Arena Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr16%31%35–55yr19%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr16%40%35–55yr19%18%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
9%
1,829/19,605

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAWYER COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY — $50,714 · OtherSAWYER COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITYBETHEL HORIZONS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherBLACKHAWK EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH INC — $20,000 · OtherSINSINAWA DOMINICANS INC — $20,000 · OtherWASHBURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherFIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY OF MADISON — $20,000 · OtherOREGON ICE ARENA INC — $20,000 · OtherSISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF THE HOLY CROSS — $20,000 · OtherSOLON SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT — $20,000 · Other+26 more — $236,630 · Other+26 moreCLEAN WISCONSIN INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WISCONSIN IN…MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentMIDWEST RENEWABLE …HECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentHECKRODT WETLAND R…ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesATTIC ANGEL…CENTRO HISPANO INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISP…EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesEVERYONE CO…MUSKEGO SENIOR TAXI SERVICE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMUSKEGO SEN…Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin — $10,000 · Human ServicesVeterans Ou…COMMUNITY HOMESTEAD INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY H…DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC — $7,215 · Human ServicesDISTRICT CO…URBAN PARTNERSHIP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMEN CORPORATION — $29,624 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $20,000 · Public BenefitAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $20,000 · HealthLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $10,000 · EducationLITERACY NETWORK INC — $8,900 · Education
Other$447,344Environment$120,000Human Services$76,215Housing & Shelter$29,624Public Benefit$20,000Health$20,000Education$18,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLEAN WISCONSIN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetURBAN PARTNERSHIP COMMUNITY DEVELOPMEN CORPORATION — $29,624 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetOREGON ICE ARENA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC — $12,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSCENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHECKRODT WETLAND RESERVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSKEGO SENIOR TAXI SERVICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCATHOLIC YOUTH EXPEDITIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS- INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVeterans Outreach of Wisconsin — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMESTEAD INC — $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC — $8,900 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BURNETT COUNTY INC — $8,112 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPRIMATES INCORPORATED — $7,951 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC — $7,215 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRICK MINISTRIES INC — $6,399 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Madison Community Fou…Greater Green Bay Com…Green Bay Packers Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Community Foundation …Herbert H Kohl Charit…The Evjue Foundation …United Way of Dane Co…Otto Bremer TrustMadison Gas and Elect…Baird Foundation Inc
Madison Community FoundationWI25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation 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 Renew Wisconsin 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.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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