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Thriving Wisconsin Inc

We cultivate a system of organizations and professionals across wisconsin to promote quality, strengths-based, early childhood services in all communities.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$54M
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $203k
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.0M
$452,165
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INC: $626k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $260k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $500k → 10%WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: $105k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN INC: $250k → 13%NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $658k → 15%CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INC: $594k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $243k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $487k → 10%WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: $96k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN INC: $240k → 13%NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $645k → 15%CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INC: $586k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $223k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $485k → 10%WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: $63k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN INC: $184k → 13%NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $626k → 15%CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INC: $554k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $218k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $454k → 10%WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: $57k → 10%NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $600k → 15%CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INC: $553k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $217k → 9%WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: $29k → 10%NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $580k → 15%CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INC: $552k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $214k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $441k → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $1.4M → 10%NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $575k → 15%CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INC: $548k → 7%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $210k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NEW: $348k → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $1.3M → 10%NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES: $451k → 15%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $203k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $303k → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $1.3M → 10%NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES INC: $407k → 15%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $1.2M → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $1.2M → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $1.1M → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $848k → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CC MADISON: $673k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54M · 11 repeat orgs$442k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$54M
$442k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CI
    CHILDCARING INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +19% · 64% of their budget
  • CC
    CHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP RESOURCE AND REFERRAL CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +120%
  • NC
    NORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +25% · 66% of their budget

Funded once

  • FA
    FAMILY AND CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $442k
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
Child Care Resource & Referral

Child Care Resource and Referral promotes and facilitates affordable quality child care through assistance, education and advocacy in Will, Grundy, Kendall, and Kankakee counties.

Human Services
2
West Central Child Care Connection Inc

Resource & referral child care

Human Services
3
Community Child Care Connection Inc

To assist families and child care providers in obtaining education, and quality, affordable child care to help children and families reach their greatest potential.

Human Services
4
Virginia Child Care Resource and Referral Network

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

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5
The Child Care Connection Inc

Child care connection provides the tools and education to give each child the very best start in life.

Human Services
6
Child Care Resource Center

To promote quality child care through the provision of support services to child care providers, parents, employers, and the community.

Human Services
7
Child Care Connection Inc Dba Thread

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;…

Human Services
8
Washington State Child Care Resource & Referral Network Dba Child Care Aware Wa

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.

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9
Child Care Resources of Monmouth County Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Child Care Resource and Referral of Kalamazoo

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.

Human Services
11
Community Connections for Children Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Community Coordinated Child Care of St Joseph County Incorporated

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

4C For Children Inc: $17,075,147 · Other4C For Children IncCHILDCARING INC: $5,443,322 · OtherCHILDCARING INCCHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP RESOURCE AND REFERRAL CENTER INC: $5,334,802 · OtherCHILD CARE PARTNERSHIP RESOURCE AND REFERRAL CENTER INC+1 more: $441,704 · OtherCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $9,098,971 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INCNORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES: $4,543,152 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCESCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN: $4,014,055 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL INFAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $3,018,206 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONS…FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $1,787,507 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS INC+2 more: $1,024,744 · Human ServicesTHE PARENTING PLACE INC: $2,469,404 · Crime & Legal
Other$28,294,975Human Services$23,486,635Crime & Legal$2,469,404

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget4C For Children Inc: $17,075,147 over 8y, 46% of budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $9,098,971 over 8y, 33% of budgetCHILDCARING INC: $5,443,322 over 8y, 64% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTION FAMILY RESOURCES: $4,543,152 over 8y, 66% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN: $4,014,055 over 7y, 71% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $3,018,206 over 7y, 44% of budgetTHE PARENTING PLACE INC: $2,469,404 over 8y, 19% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $1,787,507 over 8y, 61% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF SOUTWEST WISCONSIN INC: $674,299 over 3y, 91% of budgetWISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH INC: $350,445 over 5y, 3.9% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Registry Inc4C For Children IncAmazonsmile Foundation
The Registry IncWI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Registry Inc · 4C For Children 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thriving Wisconsin Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thriving Wisconsin Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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