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Unison Credit Union

The mission of UNISON CREDIT UNION is to provide exceptional service to our members.

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$59kRecreation & Sports$58kHealth$43kEducation$20kHousing & Shelter$15kCommunity Improvement$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kReligion$7k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $59,616, the rows itemized in this filing. The $117,013 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,397 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$339M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF KAUKAUNA$37,000
SPIERINGS CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
HEART OF THE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$6,850
POLICE LIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS$5,766
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WISCONSIN TIMBER RATTLERS: $11k → 7%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$144k · 3 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$144k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
-8%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF KAUKAUNA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $96k
  • SC
    SPIERINGS CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +116%
  • HO
    HEART OF THE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • WV
    WISCONSIN VETERAN'S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -28%
  • KP
    KAUKAUNA PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • TR
    TIMBER RATTLERS GIVE BACK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +289%
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
Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce Inc

Building a vibrant and dynamic veteran business community in Wisconsin.

Community Improvement
2
Wisconsin Veterans Community Foundation

To rapidly assist veterans and their families

Public Benefit
3
Wausau Central Wisconsin Sports Authority Inc

To promote community awareness through sport activities. the organization also sponsors the badger state games (winter and summer) and other events. these events attract thousands of competitors and visitors from across the state and…

Recreation & Sports
4
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members

—
6
Lakeshore Retrouvaille-Wisconsin

Religious Programming

Human Services
7
Little League Baseball Inc

To provide recreational and developmental baseball opportunities for Waupun area youth

—
8
Wind Lake Youth Baseball

Providing Spiritual, Mental, Scocial,and Physical attributes to young children and young adults

Recreation & Sports
9
Racine Firefighters Association

The Racine Firefighters Association is a part of the Racine Volunteer Fire Department.

Public Benefit
10
Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.

Civil Rights
11
Western Wisconsin Inspirational Broadcaster Inc

Religious broadcasting radio station

Religion
12
Wisconsin Horse Alliance
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spierings Cancer Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lakeshore Communications 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF KAUKAUNA: $96,000 · OtherCITY OF KAUKAUNAKAUKAUNA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $12,500 · OtherKAUKAUNA PUBLIC LIBRARYBEAT CANCER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherBEAT CANCER FAMILY FOUNDATIONWRIGHTSTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7,500 · OtherWRIGHTSTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICTLAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $5,766 · OtherPOLICE LIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS: $5,053 · OtherSPIERINGS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthSPIERINGS CANCER …WISCONSIN VETERAN'S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHEART OF THE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13,150 · Community ImprovementTIMBER RATTLERS GIVE BACK INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesWRIGHTSTOWN AREA BASEBALL ASSOCIATI: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLIFE PROMOTIONS INC: $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$134,319Health$35,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Community Improvement$13,150Human Services$11,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Youth Development$7,000

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 budgetSPIERINGS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetWISCONSIN VETERAN'S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEART OF THE VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13,150 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTIMBER RATTLERS GIVE BACK INC: $11,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetWRIGHTSTOWN AREA BASEBALL ASSOCIATI: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLIFE PROMOTIONS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKESHORE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $5,766 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Community Foundation …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · American Online Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Unison Credit Union?

    Find your warmest path to Unison Credit Union 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 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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