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Rotary Club of Appleton West Foundation Inc

Community service with goal of improving quality of life

$118k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$35kHousing & Shelter$35kFood & Nutrition$23kEducation$10kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $113,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $118,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COTS INC$20,000
GREATER FOX CITIESHABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
BEAMING INCORPORATED$15,000
ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC$13,000
FVTC FOUNDATION$10,000
LAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INC$10,000
NAMI FOX VALLEY INC$10,000
LOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC$10,000
REACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COTS INC: $20k → 6%LOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $10k → 7%LAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10k → 10%BEAMING INCORPORATED: $15k → 11%GREATER FOX CITIESHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 6%NAMI FOX VALLEY INC: $10k → 7%REACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC: $13k → 6%FVTC FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%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 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
Fox Valley Farms Inc

Preventing & Reducing Homelessness among People and Pets

Housing & Shelter
2
Fox Valley Hands of Hope Inc

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…

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3
Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley
Food & Nutrition
4
Fox Valley Community Foundation
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5
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

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…

Philanthropy
6
Fox Communities Credit Union

We partner with our members, communities, and fox family to build stronger financial futures.

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7
Fox Valley Older Adult Services

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…

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8
Fox Valley Workforce Development Board Inc

Working collaboratively in our communities to create and sustain a fully engaged, talented workforce for tomorrow, and beyond.

Employment
9
Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

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.

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10
Foxdale Village Corporation

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…

Human Services
11
Friends of Recovery Ne Ohio

Provide Christ centered recovery homes offering hope, healing, and restoration for individuals recovering from addictive substances.

Crime & Legal
12
Restore of Fox Valley Habitat for Humanity

Raise funds for habitat for humanity by selling donated building materials, furniture and gently used items needed to build, repair, or improve a home.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cots Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COTS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCOTS INCGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR…LAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 · OtherLAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INCNAMI FOX VALLEY INC: $10,000 · OtherNAMI FOX VALLEY INCFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE F…ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC: $13,000 · Food & NutritionST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM …LOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES & FISHES OF THE …BEAMING INC: $15,000 · HealthBEAMING INCREACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalREACH COUN…
Housing & Shelter$35,000Other$30,000Food & Nutrition$23,000Health$15,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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 budgetCOTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEAMING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNAMI FOX VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

J J Keller Foundation IncWI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rotary Club of Appleton West Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Appleton West Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    3report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Rotary Club of Appleton West Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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