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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.
$2.5M
Granted FY2024
15
Grants
1
Communities
$804k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
safetyseatdisabledhealthadultsofferscounseling
2019
safetyseatdisabledadultshealthcounselingchildren
2020
safetyseathealthadultsvolunteerlowmental
2021
healthmentaladultslowcounselingvolunteerchildren
2022
healthadultsvolunteercounselinglowmentalchildren
2023
healthmentalcounselinglowchildrenmentoringvolunteer
2024
empoweradvancehighly
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $835k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$95,917
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN$804,240
- CAP SERVICES INC$399,019
- STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA$281,918
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC$221,320
- SALVATION ARMY$169,951
- BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC$157,749
- CHILDCARING INC$111,984
- AGING & DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER OF PORTAGE COUNTY$95,917
- MEALS ON WHEELS$78,328
- UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY$47,940
- ODC$37,014
- GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES$23,825
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - SOMOSET COUNCIL$19,072
- UW RIVER FALLS$16,500
- O'CONNOR CONNECTIVERM LLC$13,500
02The need
04
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, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 16 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
16
2
Total granted
$16M
$13k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+4%
+75%
Still filing today
63%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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 Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +3%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Portage County Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +117%
- MOMeals on Wheels8× · 2017–2024 · $612k · revenue +14% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- ECEvergreen Community Initiativesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +75%
- MIMidstate Independent Living Choicesone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +12%
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.
1
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc
Empowering girls to become leaders, confident changemakers, and champions of a better world.
Youth Development
2
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.
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3
Consumer Directed Choices Inc
As the premier provider of consumer-directed personal assistance, we empower independence and advocate for people with disabilities, seniors, and their families.
Human Services
4
Achieving Independence and Mobility Cil
Independent living services for persons with disabilities.
Human Services
5
Boys & Girls Clubs
To enable youth to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Youth Development
6
United Way of South Central Michigan
United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.
Philanthropy
7
Girl Scouts of South Carolina -
In girl scouts, girls grow into confident, courageous, and resilient individuals through hands-on activities and meaningful experiences. they develop essential life skills, strong values, a sense of social responsibility, and a belief in…
Youth Development
8
Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc
Provide opportunities for positive and healthy growth for youth in our communities.
Youth Development
9
Job Point
To promote abilities of individuals seeking employment through innovative training, education & business partnerships, and enriching communities where we work and live.
Human Services
10
Baden Powell Council Inc
The council provides numerous scouting programs to youth in the six county area of new york and pennsylvania. camping activities are conducted at two scout camps.
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11
Worcester Community Action Council Inc
Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.
Human Services
12
Garten Services Inc
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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.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$11,171,696Human Services$3,105,587Youth Development$1,785,891Philanthropy$381,640Employment$74,576
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 Stevens Point Area YMCA ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Portage County Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels ↗
- Who funds United Way of Marathon County ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Somoset Council ↗
- Who funds Stevens Point Child Safety Center ↗
- Who funds Childcaring Inc ↗
- Who funds Advocates for the Develpmentally Disabled ↗
- Who funds ODC Supported Employment ↗
- Who funds Evergreen Community Initiatives ↗
- Who funds Midstate Independent Living Choices ↗
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.
Community Foundation of CentralWI20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Central · Community Foundation Of · Dudley Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc · Marshfield Clinic Health System Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust
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 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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: Stevens Point Child Safety Center.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 930828679 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 Stevens Point Child Safety Center, 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.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted 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 of Portage County Inc?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Portage County 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.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines