· Private foundation
The Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE WISCONSIN MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $13,250 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $13,250 |
| NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| WAUKESHA COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| W&A DISTRIBUTION SERVICES | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC | $2,500 |
| NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| WISCONSIN MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATION | $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 human-services grants (FY19–19, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC7× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +24%- CVCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +71%
- WMWISCONSIN MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- ITINTERNATIONAL TOWING & RECOVERY HALL OF FAME & MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -80%
- FMFLEET MAINTENANCE COUNCIL OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSINone grant, 2024 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1k
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 serve as a supporting organization for the ntc foundation to receive gifts of real estate, purchase and develop real estate, and/or hold real estate for investment or future development that will benefit the college and its stakeholders.
Provide scholarships and assistance to students and faculty for the primary benefit of southwest wisconsin technical college.
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The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.
The foundation's mission is to support educational initiatives that help ensure wisconsin maintains a highly skilled transportation workforce.
To promote, assist, and extend financial support to western dakota technical college and the students thereof by providing scholarships, grants, and financial aid.
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The mission of madison area technical college foundation is to enrich lives and strengthen our community through the acquisition of private funding in support of high quality open access education at madison college.
The western technical college foundation exists to support, promote, and facilitate the activities of western technical college.
To promote excellence and diversity in the construction industry by providing educational, training, and employment services.
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To offer scholarships to individuals and promote development opportunities at minnesota west community college through the development of external and internal constituencies of this corporation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northcentral Technical College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waupun Truck-N-Show. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TOWING & RECOVERY HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WAUPUN TRUCK-N-SHOW ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS 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: Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association 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.
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 0% of income from government
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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