How much did THE ELMWOOD FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of THE ELMWOOD FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k9 grants · $164k
$50k–250k2 grants · $430k
$250k+1 grant · $275k

$16,666

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants

VITERBO COLLEGE INC$275,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LA CROSSE$230,000
FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK FOUNDATION$200,000
GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY$30,000
FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER$30,000
CHASING DAYLIGHT ANIMAL SHELTER INC$25,000
LA CROSSE PROMISE INC$16,666
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$15,000
LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
UNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES$12,500
WOMENS FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- LA CROSSE$10,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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 8% 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 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE ELMWOOD FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.0M · 15 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+70%

Still filing today

73%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

VC
VITERBO COLLEGE INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +2%
FA
FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER
4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +25%
GR
GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY
4× · 2021–2024 · $130k · revenue +20%

Funded once

GA
GATEWAY AREA COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
one grant, 2022 · $250k
KF
KATIE FLOWERS ENDOWMENT INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +133%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LA CROSSE INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +40%

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.

Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of

Education

University of Wisconsin La Crosse -

The mission of the university of wisconsin - la crosse alumni association is to support the university of wisconsin- la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.

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La Crosse Community Foundation

Connecting people, passion, and giving in the la crosse area forever.

Philanthropy

La Crosse City Vision Foundation Inc

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Friends of Riverside Park Inc

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…

Community Improvement

La Crosse Area Development Corp

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,…

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La Crosse Community Theatre

To honor and celebrate our rich theatrical heritage while establishing a sustainable foundation for the years to come.

Arts & Culture

Greater La Crosse Area Chamber

To be a progressive business resource, growing companies and developing leaders through collaboration, advocacy, information, and services that benefit current and future business

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La Crosse County Historical Society

La crosse county historical society discovers, collects, preserves and shares the history of la crosse county, wisconsin.

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Fond Du Lac Area United Way Inc

To unite individuals and organizations in teamwork that forsters the health, education and financial stability of our community

Philanthropy

La Crosse Logan Alumni Association

The organization raises money from fundraising efforts to fund an endowment fund from which post secondary academic scholarships are awarded.

Education

La Crosse Burlington Credit Union

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Public Education Foundation I and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of the Diocese. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,746,450Education$1,351,666Philanthropy$180,000Human Services$175,000Animals$80,000Arts & Culture$45,000Environment$10,000

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.

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.

La Crosse Community FoundationWI28.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Tpi Foundation Inc 1045002342 · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn 1035004172 · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Dahl Family Foundation 1035006214 · Alm Charities 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 organisation 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.

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0get no government money at all

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KATIE FLOWERS ENDOWMENT INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~882 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391994280 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KATIE FLOWERS ENDOWMENT INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 882 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Elmwood Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Elmwood Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ELMWOOD FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Elmwood Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE ELMWOOD FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Elmwood Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph