· Public charity
Royal Credit Union
To create a positive impact in the lives we touch.
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.
The 9 grants below total $2,033,128 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,180,040 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $146,912 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RCU FOUNDATION INC | $1,949,628 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $21,000 |
| NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $13,750 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY | $10,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FEED MY PEOPLE FOOD BANK | $8,500 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY MUSEUM | $8,000 |
| CVTC FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- RFRCU FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +307% · 89% of their budget
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $119k · revenue +153%- FMFEED MY PEOPLE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TTTree Trustgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +69%
- TPTHE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +22%
- POPOWER OF PERCEPTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +187%
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.
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
The eau claire area chamber of commerce, a not-for-profit business membership organization with steady membership around 1,200 members, is the advocate of business striving to enhance and protect the business environment and quality of…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
The mission of veridian credit union is to partner with members to create successful financial futures.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rcu Foundation 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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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 RCU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER FALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AHEC INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Tree Trust ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP PLAN FOR STILLWATER AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds POWER OF PERCEPTION INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT 272 PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT UNIVERSITY PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING EAGLES SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds River Falls Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds VISIT EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL 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 · Eau Claire Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Pablo Foundation Inc · Andersen Corporate Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Westconsin Credit Union · Rcu 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 Royal Credit Union 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.
- Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
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.