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The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$285k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
14
Organizations funded FY2023
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50% of The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Watertown Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $285k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$55,000
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$142kArts & Culture$90kPhilanthropy$50kEducation$45kAnimals$20kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$10kInternational$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($210k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornerstone of Grace: $32,400 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetWatertown Historical Society: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWatertown Humane Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUniversity Lake School Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRock River Community Clinic Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWatertown Main Street Program Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBuckets for Hunger Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Joseph and Sharon Darcey FoundationWI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joseph and Sharon Darcey Foundation · Earl and Eugenia Quirk Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc

How much does The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc give?
The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $285,400 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Arts & Culture (23%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Cornerstone of Grace ($32k), Watertown Historical Society ($25k), Watertown Humane Society Inc ($20k).
Does The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joseph and Sharon Darcey Foundation, Earl and Eugenia Quirk Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc based?
The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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