· Private foundation
The Elmwood Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $164k
- $250k+2 grants · $580k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LA CROSSE | $330,000 |
| VITERBO COLLEGE INC | $250,000 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER | $30,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY | $30,000 |
| CHASING DAYLIGHT ANIMAL SHELTER INC | $25,000 |
| LA CROSSE PROMISE INC | $16,666 |
| LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $15,000 |
| UNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- LA CROSSE | $10,000 |
| WOMENS FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE | $10,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Elmwood Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +202%
- FAFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +34%
- GRGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- GAGATEWAY AREA COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $250k
- FOFRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $200k
- KFKATIE FLOWERS ENDOWMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +109%
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.
To support university of wisconsin la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.
Connecting people, passion, and giving in the la crosse area forever.
The uwl alumni and friends foundation exists to build lifelong relationships and raise private support to advance the mission of the university of wisconsin-la crosse.
We are a non-profit, member-owned financial organization. we strive to provide financial services, education, and the long-term stability of the credit union by: encouraging thrift among our members; creating a source of credit at a fair…
Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…
To be a progressive business resource, growing companies and developing leaders through collaboration, advocacy, information, and services that benefit current and future businesses.
La crosse county historical society discovers, collects, preserves and shares the history of la crosse county wisconsin
The purpose of the corporation shall be to actively facilitate and promote economic development and business retention in the la crosse area. this shall be accomplished by focusing on the "triad of development": the attraction of industry,…
Usa lacrosse is the governing body of men's and women's lacrosse in the united states. with over 415,000 members across the country, usa lacrosse provides leadership, structure and resources to fuel lacrosse's growth and enrich the…
The weber center for the performing arts is a collaborative venue supporting the missions of la crosse community theatre and viterbo university. the weber center serves as a performance and administrative center for la crosse community…
To support all of the city of la crosse, wi park land. the organization identifies needs and raises funds to enhance city parks for current and future citizens and visitors to enjoy for recreation, music activities, social gatherings and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Public Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is College Possible Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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.
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 VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CHASING DAYLIGHT ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds KATIE FLOWERS ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION 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: La Crosse Community Foundation · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214 · Trust Point Foundation Inc Xxxxxx2342 · Alm Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation
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 The Elmwood 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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