· Public charity
United Way of Marathon County Inc
Unite people and organizations in Marathon County to build a stronger community and strategically invest in promoting financial stability to improve lives now and into the future.
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–50k11 grants · $376k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $670k
- $250k+2 grants · $582k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDCARING INC | $300,000 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC | $281,933 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC | $200,000 |
| WOMENS COMMUNITY INC OF WAUSAU | $155,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC | $105,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORS PLACE | $85,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHCENTRAL WI INC | $75,000 |
| WISCONSIN JUDICARE INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LA CROSSE INC | $45,250 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC | $45,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $44,667 |
| CHILDRENS WISCONSIN | $40,000 |
| WAUSAU AREA MOBILE MEALS INC | $38,000 |
| ECDC Multicultural Center | $33,500 |
| FAITH IN ACTION OF MARATHON COUNTY INC | $30,000 |
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, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +40% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- NCNORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +36%
CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +63%- CICHILDCARING INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- ECETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INCone grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue -21%
- HAHmong American Center Incone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -60%
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.
To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
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.
The Hope Center seeks out and teams with volunteers from congregations of many faiths.The Center is committed to serving people in need in Waukesha County, Wisconsin through financial assistance, food, child care, clothing and…
Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.
Wisconsin community services advocates for justice and community safety, providing innovative opportunities for individuals to overcome adversity.
The mission of west central wisconsin community action agency, inc. is to take action against poverty by developing the social and economic assets of low-income families and their communities and by working to create a more just and…
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
The mission of wausau child care inc. is to strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.
The mission of women and children's horizons, inc. is to provide support, shelter, education, training, and healing services to victims of sexual and domestic abuse, their families, and the community.
To empower people with disabilities
Central Wisconsin Community Law is a nonprofit law firm which represents indigent people mostly in criminal cases.
The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese and the most unlike its peers is Faith in Action of Marathon County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 25 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 PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARING INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU AREA MOBILE MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LENA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPENCER KIDS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN AUTOMOTIVE AND TRUCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN JUDICARE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE ↗
- Who funds ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Hmong American Center 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 of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · The Macdonald Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Dudley Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · Merrill Area United Way Inc · Marshfield Area United Way · Abbybank 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 of Marathon County 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.