· Public charity
United Way Blackhawk Region Inc
Improving lives by mobilizing the caring power of 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
- $10k–50k7 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK AND WALWORTH COUNTIES | $214,164 |
| EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC | $193,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC | $130,000 |
| STATELINE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC | $130,000 |
| BELOIT MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $85,000 |
| HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC | $83,685 |
| CASA OF ROCK COUNTY INC | $80,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $78,325 |
| THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $68,080 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC | $50,000 |
| EDGERTON COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC | $45,000 |
| JANESVILLE COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER INC | $41,500 |
| STATELINE FAMILY YMCA OF BELOIT INC | $40,000 |
| STATELINE LITERACY COUNCIL INC | $38,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC | $25,000 |
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, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK & WALWORTH COUNTIES8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +48%
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +33%
- SBSTATELINE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +150%
Funded once
- GEGLACIER'S EDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $42k · revenue -27%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN - BADGERLAND COUNCIL INCone grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue +15%
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT OF BELOITone grant, 2022 · $29k
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.
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Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Beloit Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stateline Literacy Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 42 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 COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK & WALWORTH COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STATELINE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Beloit Meals on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STATELINE FAMILY YMCA OF BELOIT ↗
- Who funds JANESVILLE COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDGERTON COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds STATELINE LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RETIRED SENIOR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER BELOIT INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL METHODS IN LEARNING EQUINE SKILLS INC ↗
- Who funds KANDU INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIER'S EDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN - BADGERLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NUTRITION AND HEALTH ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Epilepsy Foundation of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds VIVENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT DISABILITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · The Stateline Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Morse Col Robert H Fdn Tr · Young Women's Christian Association of Rock County Inc · Janesville Foundation Inc · Claremont S Jackman Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · United Way of Dane County Inc
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 United Way Blackhawk Region 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.