· Public charity
Rotary Club of Appleton West Foundation Inc
Community service with goal of improving quality of life
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $113,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $118,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COTS INC | $20,000 |
| BEAMING INCORPORATED | $15,000 |
| GREATER FOX CITIESHABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC | $13,000 |
| LAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INC | $10,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC | $10,000 |
| NAMI FOX VALLEY INC | $10,000 |
| REACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| FVTC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 31% of your 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.
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.
Preventing & Reducing Homelessness among People and Pets
We provide compassionate guidance and support for the grieving. Fox Valley Hands of Hope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing expert support for children, families, and adults who are experiencing grief, loss, or…
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
We partner with our members, communities, and fox family to build stronger financial futures.
THE MISSION OF FOX VALLEY OLDER ADULT SERVICES IS To enrich ones journey of life through a variety of programs and experiences. We envision a future in which seniors have access to a vibrant and supportive environment that enables them to…
Working collaboratively in our communities to create and sustain a fully engaged, talented workforce for tomorrow, and beyond.
Fox cities chamber of commerce and industry, inc. is dedicated to developing, advancing, and promoting the economic, industrial, commerical, professional, cultural, and civic welfare of the fox cities area.
Foxdale village is a quaker guided community and our organization's values -- community, acceptance, engagement, inclusion, caring, fulfillment and stewardship -- reflect its founding heritage. foxdale leads the region in its delivery of…
Provide Christ centered recovery homes offering hope, healing, and restoration for individuals recovering from addictive substances.
Raise funds for habitat for humanity by selling donated building materials, furniture and gently used items needed to build, repair, or improve a home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cots Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lakeshore Communications Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 COTS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAMING INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds REACH COUNSELING SERVICES 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: J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
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 Rotary Club of Appleton West 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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