How much did UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC grant in FY2024?

Human Services$4.6MCommunity Improvement$1.9MYouth Development$784kHealth$671kFood & Nutrition$606kPhilanthropy$232kRecreation & Sports$87kEmployment$44kOther$3.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

nutritionrightnecessarysocial welfarefacilitiespersonstherapeutic

2019

hivnutritionrightnecessarysocial welfarefacilitiesrespect

2020

covid actionrightnecessarysocial welfarenutritionhivfacilities

2021

covid actionfacilitiesjanesvilletherapeuticridingoperationcasa

2022

hivcasacourtsafeabuse neglect

2023

casacourtsafeabuse neglect

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 17 grants

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

$68,080

Median grant

States reached

$7.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 2% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$12M · 30 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+21%

Still filing today

87%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

CA
COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK AND WALWORTH COUNTIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +48%
YW
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +33%
SB
STATELINE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +150%

Funded once

GE
GLACIER'S EDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
one grant, 2017 · $42k · revenue -27%
GS
GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN - BADGERLAND COUNCIL INC
one grant, 2017 · $41k · revenue +21%
SB
SOUTH BELOIT SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2022 · $29k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Wausau Child Care Inc

Strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.

Human Services

United Way of Wisconsin Inc

To promote on a statewide basis the interests of the united way system and the voluntary sector, in order to maximize the capacity of local united ways to address human needs.

Philanthropy

Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

—

Wisconsin Electric Cooperative

To provide information and assistance to its members to further their goal of providing low cost electric service.

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Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries

To provide healthcare for the elderly.

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Chamber of Commerce - Greater Beloit

Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.

Education

Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc

Empowering girls to become leaders, confident changemakers, and champions of a better world.

Youth Development

Goodwill Industries of South Central

Help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services.

Employment

Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.we…

Health

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Wisconsin School Counselor Association

Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.

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Madison Community Hospital

Provide health care services to area residents.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthnet of Rock County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kandu Industries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/42

the rest of the field

57/729

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.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

28/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$4,554,088Other$3,756,714Community Improvement$1,878,221Youth Development$783,700Health$670,615Food & Nutrition$605,511Philanthropy$232,418

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.

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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI34.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Stateline Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Dane County Inc · Morse Col Robert H Fdn Tr · Young Women's Christian Association Of · Kennedy Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STATELINE LITERACY COUNCIL-BELOIT INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +60% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391431930 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on STATELINE LITERACY COUNCIL-BELOIT INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way Blackhawk Region Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way Blackhawk Region Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way Blackhawk Region Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way Blackhawk Region Inc?

More from the funding graph