· Public charity
Thriving Wisconsin Inc
We cultivate a system of organizations and professionals across wisconsin to promote quality, strengths-based, early childhood services in all communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k1 grant · $203k
- $250k+7 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 4C - FOR CHILDREN INC | $1,214,869 |
| COMMUNITY COORDINATED CC MADISON | $673,189 |
| CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP EAU CLAIRE | $538,139 |
| CHILDCARING INC | $452,165 |
| NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES | $451,168 |
| FAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NEW | $348,385 |
| THE PARENTING PLACE | $291,134 |
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC | $202,695 |
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 (FY17–24, $23.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CICHILDCARING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +47% · 64% of their budget
- CCCHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP RESOURCE AND REFERRAL CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +120%
- NCNORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +25% · 66% of their budget
Funded once
- FAFAMILY AND CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2017 · $442k
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.
Child Care Resource and Referral promotes and facilitates affordable quality child care through assistance, education and advocacy in Will, Grundy, Kendall, and Kankakee counties.
Resource & referral child care
To assist families and child care providers in obtaining education, and quality, affordable child care to help children and families reach their greatest potential.
Contracts with child care resource agencies to provide assistance to working parents in locating and identifying child care programs and to collect, maintain, and disseminate
Child care connection provides the tools and education to give each child the very best start in life.
To promote quality child care through the provision of support services to child care providers, parents, employers, and the community.
To advance the quality of early education and child development by empowering parents, educating child care professionals, and collaborating with our communities. We provide statewide Child Care Resources and Referral Services;…
Child care aware of washington provides thorough and independent information and support for families seeking quality child care, for child care programs seeking to improve quality, and for effective policy making.
To enhance the quality of family life in monmouth county by ensuring the highest caliber of safe, affordable and developmentally sound child care services for all children. child care resources invests in monmouth county's children by…
To work with parents, child care providers, businesses and the community to improve access to quality child care and early education so that every child enjoys safe, nurturing and inspiring care.
Ccc connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life.
Community coordinated child care (4c's) believes in improving and maintaining the health and nutritional status of children in child care while promoting the development of good eating habits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Connections of Soutwest Wisconsin Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 4C For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARING INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP RESOURCE AND REFERRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF SOUTWEST WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH 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: The Registry Inc · 4C For Children 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 Thriving Wisconsin 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.
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.