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Wagner Foundation
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $489k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KELCH AVIATION MUSEUM INC | $350,000 |
| MANO A MANO | $201,172 |
| MID-CONTINENT RAILWAY MUSEUM | $157,629 |
| COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE LAKE SUPERIOR SQUADRON | $80,000 |
| BURLINGTON CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BURLINGTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| WINGS OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| WALWORTH COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES | $9,800 |
| JOHN XXIII EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| SAUK COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| LIFE CHOICES INC | $5,000 |
| BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($5.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($614k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% of your 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.
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($614k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
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 FY2022, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $370k 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
- MRMID-CONTINENT RAILWAY MUSEUM6× · 2017–2022 · $1.9M
- MAMANO A MANO5× · 2017–2022 · $783k
- BCBURLINGTON COMMUNITY POOL CORP5× · 2017–2021 · $551k · revenue +53% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $252k
- MGMITCHELL GALLERY OF FLIGHTone grant, 2021 · $111k
- BCBURLINGTON COMMUNITY FUND LTDone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +22%
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 encourage and enable all youth to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens by providing guidance and character development in various sports, recreational, and leadership activities.
The burlington library foundation is organized as a not-for-profit (501 (c)3) organization to secure contributions necessary to provide exemplary service to patrons and our community through modern and accessible facilities and…
To serve our community by providing excellent aquatic opportunities.
To provide fire and ems services to the residents of burton village and the surrounding communities.
The organization was created to construct and operate a state of the art pool, fitness, and community center in bloomer, wisconsin. the facility offers swim lessons, fitness memberships, and a place for the community to gather for meetings…
To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The Corporation endeavours to educate the public about aviation history and to honor veterans by creating and flying World War trainer aircraft
The ymca builds a strong community by involving youth, adults, and families in programs and activities that help them learn, grow, and thrive. we strive to eliminate barriers to participation by offering both direct financial assistance…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
The mission of the organization is to operate exclusively for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, boys and girls clubs of america, a d.c. corporation that was congressionally chartered in 1956 ("boys & girls clubs of america")…
To provide a safe, fun place where youth are inspired to make healthy, responsible choices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Burlington Community Pool Corp and the most unlike its peers is Life Choices Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 33 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 BURLINGTON COMMUNITY POOL CORP ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON COMMUNITY FUND LTD ↗
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Faith Hope & Love Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
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: Oneill Foundation Inc · Wagner-Essman Care Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Wagner Foundation 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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