· Public charity
United Way of South Wood & Adams Counties Inc
The mission of the united way of south wood & adams counties, inc.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD & ADAMS COUNTIES INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $380,475 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $399,275 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,800 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $227k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FAMILY CENTER | $60,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $60,000 |
| YMCA | $54,750 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION | $52,000 |
| FOCUS | $35,875 |
| BOY SCOUTS | $24,850 |
| CHILD CARING INC | $22,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $15,000 |
| PARK PLACE ADULT DAY CARE | $15,000 |
| FAITH IN ACTION | $13,500 |
| CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL | $11,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES | $10,500 |
| BACK PACK FOR KIDS - NEKOOSA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $624k · revenue +114%
- WRWISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $485k · revenue +41%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $413k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CWCENTRAL WISCONSIN LITERACY COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $6k
- RFRAPIDS FAMILY BACKPACKSone grant, 2017 · $5k
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of the Wisconsin Rapids Area Inc and the most unlike its peers is Park Place Adult Day Services Inc. 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 18 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WISCONSIN RAPIDS AREA INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING OUR COMMUNITIES WITH UNITED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARING INC ↗
- Who funds PARK PLACE ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S CROSSING 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: Incourage Community Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · 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 South Wood & Adams Counties 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.