· Public charity
United Way of Portage County Inc
The united way of portage county brings people and resources together to achieve measurable results that improve people's lives and strengthen our community.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN | $640,242 |
| CAP SERVICES INC | $486,990 |
| STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA | $265,679 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC | $229,923 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN | $168,060 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC | $158,923 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $151,982 |
| AGING & DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $81,811 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $81,686 |
| CHILDCARING INC | $81,610 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY | $47,940 |
| ODC | $40,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES | $14,086 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - SOMOSET COUNCIL | $5,134 |
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, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 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 FY2025, 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
- CSCAP SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +3%
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of Stevens Point Wisconsin Area Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +29%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +117%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2024 · $17k
- OCO'CONNOR CONNECTIVERM LLCone grant, 2024 · $14k
- ECEVERGREEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INCone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -2%
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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Independent living services for persons with disabilities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cap Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels of Stevens Point. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 CAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Stevens Point Wisconsin Area Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds STEVENS POINT CHILD SAFETY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY ADVOCATES FOR THE DEVELOP DISABLED INC COMMUNITY PARTNERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES 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 Central Wisconsin Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Dudley Foundation Inc · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization United Way of Portage 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.