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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
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.

Arts & Culture$877k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $103,715, the rows itemized in this filing. The $109,142 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,427 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 $10k7 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
$8,899
Median grant
1
States reached
$908k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COULEE CHORDSMAN$21,815
LA CROSSE COMMUNITY THEATRE$13,872
PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER$10,232
LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$9,604
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT$8,899
LA CROSSE AREA YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHE$8,768
GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS$8,764
LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE$8,640
LA CROSSE BOY CHOIR$8,002
LA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,119
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $11k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $11k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 12%COULEE CHORDSMAN: $25k → 12%COULEE CHORDSMAN: $24k → 12%COULEE CHORDSMAN: $23k → 12%COULEE CHORDSMAN: $23k → 12%COULEE CHORDSMAN: $22k → 12%COULEE CHORDSMAN: $22k → 12%COULEE CHORDSMAN: $19k → 12%COULEE CHORDSMAN: $16k → 12%PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $12k → 12%PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $12k → 12%PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $11k → 12%PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $11k → 12%MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT: $11k → 12%MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT: $11k → 12%PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $11k → 12%LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE: $11k → 12%LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE: $11k → 12%MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT: $10k → 12%PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $10k → 12%LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE: $10k → 12%MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT: $10k → 12%PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $10k → 12%MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT: $10k → 12%MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT: $10k → 12%MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT: $9k → 12%LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE: $9k → 12%LA CROSSE BOY CHOIR: $9k → 12%LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE: $9k → 12%LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE: $9k → 12%LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE: $9k → 12%PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $9k → 12%MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENT: $9k → 12%LA CROSSE BOY CHOIR: $9k → 12%GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS: $10k → 12%LA CROSSE BOY CHOIR: $9k → 12%GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS: $10k → 12%GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS: $10k → 12%GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS: $9k → 12%GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS: $9k → 12%GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS: $9k → 12%GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS: $9k → 12%GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS: $9k → 12%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$877k · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$877k
$0

Still filing today

70%
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
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

  • LC
    La Crosse Community Theatre
    8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +34%
  • PH
    PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +57%
  • LC
    LA CROSSE YOUTH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +19%

Funded once

    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
    Music St Croix

    Music Saint Croix creates artistically excellent performances with exciting and unusual programming for the enjoyment of St. Croix Valley audiences.

    Arts & Culture
    2
    La Crosse Show Choir Parent Organization

    To approve and aid in the financing of local and out of town competitions for the show choirs, and to assist in financing the cost of costumes and props and to serve as positive role models to the la crosse show choir students.

    Education
    3
    Greater La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc
    Education
    4
    Los Angeles Chamber Choir Inc

    Expanding the artistry of voice through an independent professional vocal ensenble that shares traditional choral music with the widest possible audience.

    Arts & Culture
    5
    Lawrence Civic Choir Inc

    Furthering the appreciation of the choir to the community

    Arts & Culture
    6
    LEau Claire Jazz Society Inc
    Arts & Culture
    7
    Fond Du Lac Concert Association Inc

    Proliferation of fine arts within locality.

    —
    8
    Lamoine Community Arts

    We are a 501c3 non-profit organization, providing arts and entertainment to the community

    Arts & Culture
    9
    Los Alamos Concert Association

    To provide concerts, recitals, and other musical performances for residents of Los Alamos and surrounding areas. To cultivate in residents of Los Alamos and its surrounding areas an interest in and knowledge of good music.

    —
    10
    The La Mirada Symphony Association

    The La Mirada Symphony strives to maintain its policy of offering free quality concerts to the residents of Southern California

    Arts & Culture
    11
    Lakewood Symphony

    Learn and perform great music

    —
    12
    Lake County Symphony Orchestra

    Professional music outreach and awareness

    Arts & Culture
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Symphony Orchestra Inc; the most unlike its peers is Great River Festival of Arts 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, 2017–2025.

    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. 8 of the 10 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    7/8
    Grantees still filing
    7/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMER: $172,405 · OtherSOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCRGMNT OF BARBERSHOP QUARTET SINGING AMERUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $80,559 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonLA CROSSE YOUTH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $77,385 · OtherLA CROSSE YOUTH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $76,683 · OtherLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCLA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE INC: $76,508 · OtherLA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE INCLA CROSSE BOY CHOIR INC: $64,138 · OtherLA CROSSE BOY CHOIR INCLA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $45,794 · OtherLA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYLa Crosse Community Theatre: $123,005 · Arts & CultureLa Crosse Community TheatrePUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER: $86,956 · Arts & CulturePUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTERGREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS INC: $73,520 · Arts & CultureGREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS INC
    Other$593,472Arts & Culture$283,481

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

    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
    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 La Crosse Community Theatre ↗
    • Who funds PUMP HOUSE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER ↗
    • Who funds LA CROSSE YOUTH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
    • Who funds LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
    • Who funds LA CROSSE CHAMBER CHORALE INC ↗
    • Who funds GREAT RIVER FESTIVAL OF ARTS INC ↗
    • Who funds LA CROSSE BOY CHOIR INC ↗
    • Who funds LA CROSSE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization United Fund for the Arts and Humanities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Fund for the Arts and Humanities. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
      2report 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.

      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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