How much did United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc grant in FY2025?

Human Services$3.1MEducation$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHealth$932kArts & Culture$349kInternational$318kYouth Development$313kEmployment$200kHousing & Shelter$92kOther$2.0M

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k18 grants · $439k
$50k–250k3 grants · $231k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$111,142
WESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC	$65,758
FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER	$54,467
CHIPPEWA VALLEY FREE CLINIC INC	$45,000
YMCA OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY	$43,438
THE OPEN DOOR CLINIC	$34,479
THE COMMUNITY TABLE INC	$34,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC	$31,410
HOPE VILLAGE - TINY HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC	$30,000
LE PHILLPS CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER	$30,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DIOCESE OF LACROSSE INC	$30,000
EAU CLAIRE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT	$26,630
GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES	$24,132
BOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC	$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHIPPEWA VALLEY	$19,306

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.3M · 30 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.3M

$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+29%

Still filing today

80%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

WD
WESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +70%
CV
CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +136% · 31% of their budget
FS
FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +31%

Funded once

FM
FEED MY PEOPLE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $93k · revenue +29%
AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN CHAPTER
one grant, 2017 · $24k
LP
LE PHILLIPS SENIOR CENTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +198%

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.

Central Wisconsin Community Action Council Inc

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.

Human Services

Community Care Health Plan Inc

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.

Health

Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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Family Promise of Washington County Inc

Provide resources and services to empower homeless families and individuals of washington county wisconsin.

Housing & Shelter

Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc

To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.

Human Services

West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services

Northwest Wisconsin Concentrated Employment Program Inc

Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.

Employment

Workforce Connections Inc

Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…

Employment

United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

We improve lives and build stronger chippewa valley communities by bringing resources together to advance the common good.

Philanthropy

Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment

Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc

Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

Housing & Shelter

Westconsin Credit Union

The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Village - Tiny Housing Alternatives Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/40

the rest of the field

98/1,135

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$3,148,472Other$2,626,105Education$1,121,922Community Improvement$1,071,786Health$931,793Arts & Culture$349,220International$317,576

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.

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.

Eau Claire Community FoundationWI47.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eau Claire Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · Pablo Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Community Foundation of Chippewa Co · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Edward and Hannah M Rutledge Charities Inc · Annmarie 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 the Greater Chippewa Valley 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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