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Summit Credit Union

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 improve their economic and social conditions.

$347k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$89k
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 FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$460kEducation$349kYouth Development$163kCivil Rights$110kHealth$68kHuman Services$64kInternational$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $188k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$88,785
HC SQUARED INCORPORATED$50,000
MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION$36,668
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY$25,000
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER$20,000
YWCA MADISON$17,500
THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY$16,666
CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE CO$15,000
MADISON READING PROJECT$15,000
SUN PRAIRIE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$12,500
BLACK MEN COALITION FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION$10,000
CLIMB$10,000
WAUNAKEE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$7,500
MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$7,330
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 (FY17–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA: $6k → 6%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE: $6k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $18k → 10%DOYENNE GROUP: $5k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $20k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE CO: $16k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE CO: $15k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 21 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
15

Total granted

$2.6M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+3%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +48%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $81k · revenue +81%
  • EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • OC
    ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -28%
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN CREDIT UNION COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +68%
  • BF
    BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -32%

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
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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3
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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4
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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5
Madison Development Corporation

Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.

Community Improvement
6
Westconsin Credit Union

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…

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7
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
8
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
9
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.

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10
Wisconsin Council On Economic Education Inc

To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.

Social Science
11
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%7%<5yr13%10%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr15%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%48%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr15%26%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
8%
344/4,086

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

42 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. 42 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
22/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $1,333,334 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INCWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $22,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $419,614 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $81,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON I…HC SQUARED INCORPORATED — $50,000 · OtherHC SQUARED INCORPORATEDNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $47,900 · OtherNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONWAUNAKEE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 · OtherTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $34,334 · Other+13 more — $181,253 · Other+13 moreMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $155,206 · EducationMADISON AR…EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $59,643 · EducationEDGEWOOD U…Sun Prairie Public Library Foundation — $25,000 · EducationSun Prairi…MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $12,830 · EducationCEOS OF TOMORROW INC — $10,500 · Education+1 more — $5,500 · EducationIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INC — $30,500 · Human ServicesONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesYWCA MADISON INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesKETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE PLACE INC — $5,750 · Human ServicesDoyenne Group Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $81,500 · Youth DevelopmentCLIMB USA INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INCORPORATED — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC — $42,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $16,000 · HealthRISE WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · HealthWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $60,870 · International
Arts & Culture$1,405,834Other$851,601Education$268,679Human Services$124,750Youth Development$122,000Health$68,000International$60,870

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 budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $1,333,334 over 2y, 18% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $419,614 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $155,206 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $81,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $81,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $60,870 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $59,643 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $47,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC — $42,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWAUNAKEE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $34,334 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $30,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN - BADGERLAND COUNCIL INC — $25,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSun Prairie Public Library Foundation — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLIMB USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CREDIT UNION COALITION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEXPLORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SUN PRAIRIE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC MARKET FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $12,830 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCEOS OF TOMORROW INC — $10,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWaunakee Community Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBLACK MEN COALITION FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUNSHINE PLACE INC — $5,750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INCORPORATED — $5,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,159 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDoyenne Group Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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…Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …Ascendium Education S…Trustage Foundation I…Alliant Energy Founda…United Way of Dane Co…The Roots and Wings F…The Oscar Rennebohm F…Endres Manufacturing …Green Bay Packers Fou…Sub-Zero Group Founda…
Madison Community FoundationWI62.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Sub-Zero Group 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 Summit 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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