· Public charity
United Way Fox Cities Inc
To improve lives by bringing diverse people together to build a stronger, more caring community for everyone.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $6,843,755 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,617,592 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $773,837 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA FOX CITIES | $570,671 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN | $514,129 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOX VALLEY | $427,220 |
| VPI INC | $375,071 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $336,740 |
| PILLARS | $328,752 |
| HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAM | $313,294 |
| SOAR FOX CITIES INC | $288,544 |
| CATALPA - PATH | $265,000 |
| REACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC | $254,111 |
| CATALPA | $247,080 |
| YOUTHGO INC | $218,910 |
| CAP SERVICES | $186,485 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC | $164,819 |
| BRIDGES CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER | $160,359 |
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 (FY17–25, $28.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +61%
- FSFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +62%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +559%
Funded once
- GFGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +81%
- HAHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP FOX VALLEYone grant, 2017 · $103k · revenue -61% · 65% of their budget
- MJMENASHA JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $74k
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.
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…
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
Innovative services, inc. (isi) 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 in wisconsin.
The mission of central wisconsin community action council, inc. (cwcac) is to provide opportunities for services which help low-income individuals and families within our service area achieve self-sufficiency and independence.
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.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
United way's mission is to improve lives.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Outagamie County Housing Inc Dba Nahbrs. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 99 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GO INC ↗
- Who funds REACH COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BRIDGES DAY CARE CENTER AND PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER - FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Best Friends of Neenah-Menasha In ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LSS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIVENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCAP INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' BRIGADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area United Way Inc · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation 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 Fox Cities 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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.