How much does United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc give?

United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc reported 21 grants totaling $680,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Health (20%), Housing & Shelter (17%).

Who are United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council Inc ($1.1M), Chippewa Valley Technical College Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Family Support Center ($1.0M).

Does United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eau Claire Community Foundation, Mayo Clinic Group Return, Otto Bremer Trust.

Where is United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc based?

United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc is based in WI.

United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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.

$680k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$111k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.5MHealth$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.6MEducation$1.2MYouth Development$711kEmployment$519kArts & Culture$349kFood & Nutrition$343kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

+33%

+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

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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West Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board Inc

Workforce development planning, policy guidance, and oversight of workforce development programs in the west central wisconsin workforce development area

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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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

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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