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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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$83kRecreation & Sports$24kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEmployment$2kHealth$400Human Services$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
$11,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$88k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$13,250
FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOMEN AND CHILDRENS HORIZONS INC: $200 → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 6 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$69k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+101%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +24%
  • CV
    CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +71%
  • WM
    WISCONSIN MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IT
    INTERNATIONAL TOWING & RECOVERY HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -80%
  • FM
    FLEET MAINTENANCE COUNCIL OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Ntc Property Foundation Inc

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.

Education
2
Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Foundation Inc

Provide scholarships and assistance to students and faculty for the primary benefit of southwest wisconsin technical college.

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3
Wisconsin Technical College System Foundation Inc

The wisconsin technical college system (wtcs) foundation, inc., seeks to advance the wisconsin technical college system, its constituent technical colleges and public and private sector career, technical and workplace education. the…

Education
4
Dakota County Technical College Foundation

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.

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5
The Foundation of the Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Association

The foundation's mission is to support educational initiatives that help ensure wisconsin maintains a highly skilled transportation workforce.

Education
6
Western Dakota Vocational Technical Foundation Inc

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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7
Northwest Technical College - Bemidji Foundation

The mission of northwest technical college - bemidji foudation is to culivate friendships accept gifts manage and distribute private support to advance norwest technical college

Education
8
Madison Area Technical College Foundation Inc

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.

Education
9
Western Technical College Foundation Inc

The western technical college foundation exists to support, promote, and facilitate the activities of western technical college.

Education
10
Northwest College of Construction

To promote excellence and diversity in the construction industry by providing educational, training, and employment services.

Education
11
Minneapolis Community & Technical College Foundation

The minneapolis community & technical college foundation helps solve issues of affordability and access to higher education through funds and provides part or all of the funding to the college to develop technical college foundation…

Education
12
Minnesota West Foundation

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northcentral Technical College Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAUKESHA COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherWAUKESHA COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $13,250 · OtherFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · OtherGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCWISCONSIN MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATION: $7,497 · OtherWISCONSIN MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATIONW&A DISTRIBUTION SERVICES: $3,000 · OtherWAUPUN TRUCK-N-SHOW: $2,500 · Other+4 more: $4,200 · Other+4 moreCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $19,800 · EducationCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL …NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EducationNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNI…+1 more: $375 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $24,300 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISC…INTERNATIONAL TOWING & RECOVERY HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM: $7,695 · Arts & CultureWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $200 · Human ServicesNAMI National: $200 · Health
Other$67,447Education$31,175Recreation & Sports$24,300Arts & Culture$7,695Human Services$200Health$200

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 budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $24,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $19,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $13,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TOWING & RECOVERY HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM: $7,695 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWISCONSIN MOTOR CARRIERS ASSOCIATION: $7,497 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWAUPUN TRUCK-N-SHOW: $2,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S HORIZONS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Delta Dental of Wisco…Ascendium Education S…Green Bay Packers Fou…The Chicago Community…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation IncWI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
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How do I get to The Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association 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 18 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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