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United Fund for the Arts and Humanities

Ufah facilitates and directs an annual fund drive soliciting donations from la crosse community's businesses and professionals on behalf of its member organizations.

$109k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$104k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$8,899
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,815
Organizations funded a year
9 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$908k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations United Fund for the Arts and Humanities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$104k0%
FY20239$103k0%
FY202210$120k0%
FY202110$113k0%
FY202010$122k0%
FY201910$121k0%
FY201810$100k0%
FY201710$94kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$877k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Society for Preservation & Encrgmnt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer$172,4058n/a
La Crosse Community Theatre$123,00583%
Pump House Regional Arts Center$86,95687%
University of Wisconsin Madison$80,5598n/a
La Crosse Youth Symphony Society Inc$77,385824%
La Crosse Symphony Orchestra Inc$76,68382%
La Crosse Chamber Chorale Inc$76,508821%
Great River Festival of Arts Inc$73,520821%
La Crosse Boy Choir Inc$64,138849%
La Crosse County Historical Society$45,79475%

Where it is load-bearing

United Fund for the Arts and Humanities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLa Crosse Community Theatre: $123,005 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetPump House Regional Arts Center: $86,956 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetLa Crosse Youth Symphony Society Inc: $77,385 over 8y, 24% of budgetLa Crosse Symphony Orchestra Inc: $76,683 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetLa Crosse Chamber Chorale Inc: $76,508 over 8y, 21% of budgetGreat River Festival of Arts Inc: $73,520 over 8y, 21% of budgetLa Crosse Boy Choir Inc: $64,138 over 8y, 49% of budgetLa Crosse County Historical Society: $45,794 over 7y, 5.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

La Crosse Community F…Smith Russell & Vera …Cleary-Kumm Foundatio…Amazonsmile Foundation
La Crosse Community FoundationWI17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: La Crosse Community Foundation · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Cleary-Kumm 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.

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About United Fund for the Arts and Humanities

How much does United Fund for the Arts and Humanities give?
United Fund for the Arts and Humanities reported 10 itemized grants totaling $103,715, out of $109,142 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Fund for the Arts and Humanities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are United Fund for the Arts and Humanities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Society for Preservation & Encrgmnt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer ($172k), La Crosse Community Theatre ($123k), Pump House Regional Arts Center ($87k).
Does United Fund for the Arts and Humanities fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Fund for the Arts and Humanities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include La Crosse Community Foundation, Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172, Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc.
Where is United Fund for the Arts and Humanities based?
United Fund for the Arts and Humanities is based in WI.

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 10 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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The camps
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By state
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