How much does United Way Blackhawk Region Inc give?

United Way Blackhawk Region Inc reported 17 grants totaling $1,343,541 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does United Way Blackhawk Region Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (45%), Youth Development (16%), Community Improvement (15%).

Who are United Way Blackhawk Region Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Action Inc of Rock & Walworth Counties ($1.9M), Young Women's Christian Association of Rock County Inc ($1.3M), Stateline Boys & Girls Clubs Inc ($1.1M).

Does United Way Blackhawk Region Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way Blackhawk Region Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc, The Stateline Community Foundation Inc.

Where is United Way Blackhawk Region Inc based?

United Way Blackhawk Region Inc is based in WI.

United Way Blackhawk Region Inc

United Way Blackhawk Region Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way Blackhawk Region Inc

Improving lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities.

$1.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$214k

Largest

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.

Human Services$5.6MYouth Development$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.9MHealth$792kFood & Nutrition$640kPublic Safety & Disaster$476kEducation$428kPhilanthropy$425kOther$0

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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

02The need

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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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +45% for those 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

+60%

+45%

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

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

CA
COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK & 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 +15%
SD
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BELOIT
one grant, 2022 · $29k

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.

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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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.

Health

Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (innovative care services) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities…

Human Services

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services

Racine County Opportunity Center

Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…

Human Services

United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy

Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment

Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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Community Supported Care Partners of Illinois Llc

Community Supported Care Partners of Illinois is dedicated to delivering an integrated care system that supports individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across all areas of life; health, work, lifestyle, and emotional…

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Care Wisconsin First Inc

Our mission is to promote the quality of life of our communities by empowering others and working together to creatively solve unique health and long term care needs. to carry out this mission, we: 1. operate on a sustainable financial…

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Goodwill Manufacturing Inc

Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…

Employment

Jewish Social Services of Madison Inc

Jewish social services of madison empowers families and individuals across generations and cultures to build community and self-sufficiency, with a strong commitment to the jewish community and inspired by jewish values. we offer services…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Greater Beloit Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

27/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI39× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Way Blackhawk Region Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way Blackhawk Region Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home