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The Elmwood Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Elmwood Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$749k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$1.7MYouth Development$1.3MHuman Services$480kPhilanthropy$210kRecreation & Sports$210kArts & Culture$183kAnimals$105kReligion$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $164k
  • $250k+2 grants · $580k
$16,666
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WOMENS FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- LA CROSSE$10,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $40k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $40k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $40k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $30k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $30k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Elmwood Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 92%.

The Elmwood Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 15 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$3.8M
$575k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +202%
  • FA
    FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +34%
  • GR
    GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • GA
    GATEWAY AREA COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • KF
    KATIE FLOWERS ENDOWMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +164%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Wisconsin La Crosse - Alumni Association

To support university of wisconsin la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.

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2
La Crosse Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
3
Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc
Education
4
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Alumni & Friends Foundation Inc

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.

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5
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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6
Lawrence University of Wisconsin

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…

Education
7
Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce

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

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8
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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9
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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10
Us Lacrosse Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
11
La Crosse Performing Arts Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Public Education Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VITERBO UNIVERSITY: $1,450,000 · EducationVITERBO UNIVERSITYLA CROSSE PROMISE INC: $83,332 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $75,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationYMCA: $275,000 · OtherYMCAGATEWAY AREA COUNCIL - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $250,000 · OtherGATEWAY AREA COUNCIL - BOY S…FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK FO…LA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $85,950 · OtherLA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION F…LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $75,000 · OtherLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA…UNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $63,000 · OtherUNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS AND…FRANCISCAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN- LA CROSSE: $40,000 · Other+2 more: $35,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $1,045,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GRE…GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHASING DAYLIGHT ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $105,000 · AnimalsCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · Environment
Education$1,633,332Other$1,073,950Youth Development$1,045,000Philanthropy$220,000Human Services$205,000Animals$105,000Arts & Culture$45,000Environment$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVITERBO UNIVERSITY: $1,450,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $1,045,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $180,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $160,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCHASING DAYLIGHT ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $105,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetLA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $85,950 over 2y, 16% of budgetLA CROSSE PROMISE INC: $83,332 over 3y, 18% of budgetLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $75,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FUND FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $63,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER LA CROSSE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKATIE FLOWERS ENDOWMENT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONALASKA ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

La Crosse Community F…Lyche Family Foundati…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Smith Russell & Vera …Sue Anne Gelatt Found…Cleary-Kumm Foundatio…Xcel Energy FoundationHerbert H Kohl Charit…Dahl Family Foundatio…Trust Point Foundatio…Alm Charities IncGreen Bay Packers Fou…
La Crosse Community FoundationWI30.4× affinity12 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Elmwood Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elmwood Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Elmwood Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Elmwood Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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