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Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi

Second harvest foodbank exists to end hunger in southwestern wisconsin.

$44M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your 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 FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.6MHuman Services$381kYouth Development$98kCommunity Improvement$27kReligion$19kMembership Benefit$14kEducation$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $49,766 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $43,730,496 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,680,730 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$11,389
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY$21,931
LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER$11,389
VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$8,642
KENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$7,804
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $704k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $90k → 9%CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $11k → 16%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $85k → 9%CARITAS INC: $5k → 10%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $80k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $80k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $50k → 9%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $17k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $16k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 10%IRWIN A & ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER LLC: $15k → 10%VERA COURT KIDS CAFE: $12k → 10%VERA COURT KIDS CAFE: $12k → 10%VERA COURT KIDS CAFE: $11k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%VERA COURT KIDS CAFE: $9k → 10%VERA COURT KIDS CAFE: $9k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $9k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 10%EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 10%DEERFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $20k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $17k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $16k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $13k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $12k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $12k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $11k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $9k → 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 edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 13 repeat orgs$419k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
22

Total granted

$1.7M
$419k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+23%

Still filing today

85%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentMembership BenefitOther

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

  • HA
    HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $385k · revenue +67%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF IOWA
    7× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +228%
  • RB
    RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR
    5× · 2017–2021 · $185k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • HI
    HMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +8%
  • RF
    REAP FOOD GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $61k · revenue +55%
  • TR
    THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue -13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Food Pantry of Waukesha County Inc

The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.

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2
Waushara County Food Pantry Inc

We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.

Food & Nutrition
3
Antigo Area Community Food Pantry

Free food pantry. The Organization distributes free food to over 100 needy families per week, totaling almost 5000 visits per year. Over 70 individual volunteers receive, organize, and distribute over 200,000 pounds of food annually.

Food & Nutrition
4
North Scott Food Pantry

The North Scott Food Pantry provides food for people in need. Clients receive enough food for about one week and are allowed to get food every 28 days. There were 721 visits to our food pantry in 2025.

Food & Nutrition
5
Mukwonago Food Pantry

Food Pantry - to provide nutritious food to people in need. Also, to provide used clothing and backpacks for school children and to provide energy assistance outreach site.

Food & Nutrition
6
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc

The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
7
Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley
Food & Nutrition
8
Coralville Community Food Pantry

We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…

Food & Nutrition
9
South County Community Food Bank

Providing nutritious food to low income families and individuals in south clatsop county

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Bank of Southern Iowa

Obtain, warehouse, and distribute food products to client agencies to help alleviate hunger in southern iowa communities.

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11
Adams County Food Pantry
Food & Nutrition
12
Becker County Food Pantry Inc

To serve becker county residents in need with programs that provide food, promote the value of nutrition and connects to community resources to ensure a meaningful impact to our community's well-being.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My People Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hmong Institute Incorporated. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History & Heritage Mu…County Agricultural FairsFaith-Based Senior CareCommunity Health CentersMadison Community Developme…Community Foundations & Gra…Community Foundations & Gra…Supportive Housing ServicesYouth Sports ClubsLocal Chambers of Commerce
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%5%<5yr12%8%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr16%36%35–55yr19%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr16%45%35–55yr19%21%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/155
the rest of the field
8%
627/8,293

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

112 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/112
Grantees still filing
53/112
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD BANK OF IOWA — $365,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF IOWARIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $185,000 · Food & NutritionRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIRNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK — $180,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANKFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $80,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INCREAP FOOD GROUP INC — $61,441 · Food & NutritionREAP FOOD GROUP INCTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INCBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $25,000 · Food & NutritionHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $385,000 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM…LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $110,037 · Human ServicesLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER IN…VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $109,741 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INCIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $62,412 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNIT…+5 more — $52,004 · Human Services+5 moreHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $75,000 · OtherHMONG INSTI…SALVATION ARMY MILWAUKEE COUNTY — $44,880 · OtherSALVATION A…FOOD BANKS FOR THE HEARTLAND — $30,000 · OtherFOOD BANKS …NECEDAH AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT — $10,500 · OtherMESSIAH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — $9,903 · OtherSun Prairie Emergency Food Pantry Inc — $9,420 · OtherINTERNATIONAL PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH - HOPE FELLOWSHIP — $8,617 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $7,428 · Other+3 more — $19,967 · Other+3 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $65,895 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WEST CENTRAL WIS — $32,332 · Youth DevelopmentKENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC — $84,769 · Community ImprovementCOULEECAP INC — $13,637 · Membership BenefitRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC — $8,129 · HealthGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $7,800 · Environment
Food & Nutrition$1,006,941Human Services$719,194Other$215,715Youth Development$98,227Community Improvement$84,769Membership Benefit$13,637Health$8,129Environment$7,800

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 budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $385,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA — $365,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $185,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK — $180,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $110,037 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $109,741 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetKENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC — $84,769 over 4y, 13% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $80,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $75,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $65,895 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $62,412 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREAP FOOD GROUP INC — $61,441 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WEST CENTRAL WIS — $32,332 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEXTENDED HANDS PANTRY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDEERFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOULEECAP INC — $13,637 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC — $8,129 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $7,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $7,071 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC — $6,998 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAUK PRAIRIE AREA FOOD PANTRY INC — $5,898 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCARITAS INC — $5,004 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

Alliant Energy Founda…United Way of Dane Co…Madison Community Fou…Trustage Foundation I…Green Bay Packers Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …Ascendium Education S…Otto Bremer TrustSub-Zero Group Founda…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Endres Manufacturing …
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI74.9× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Endres Manufacturing 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 Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 35 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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