· Public charity
United Way of Walworth County
Collect and disburse funds for the united way
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $184,760 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $230,735 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,975 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $15,675 |
| SMILES | $14,150 |
| INSPIRATION MINISTRIES | $13,225 |
| WALWORTH COUNTY DRUG AND ALCOHOL COALITION | $12,425 |
| SIDE BY SIDE | $12,225 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $12,025 |
| WALWORTH COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $11,700 |
| WALWORTH COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $10,710 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS APFV | $10,350 |
| GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YMCA | $9,850 |
| DEMENTIA FRIENDLY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE | $9,250 |
| OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC | $8,125 |
| BETHEL HOUSE OF WHITEWATER INC | $8,050 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,975 |
| AGAPE HOUSE | $6,475 |
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 (FY17–23, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK & WALWORTH COUNTIES9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +48%
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +133%
OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- FFFAMILIES FIRST INC DBA EAST TROY FAMILY COMMUNITY RES CTRone grant, 2020 · $9k
- J2J12 24 SEEDS OF HOPE INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -39%
- TTTHE TIME IS NOW TO HELP INC2× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue -14%
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.
We provide financial and spiritual aid to the underprivileged, including rent and utility assistance, food, clothing, household items so they can meet their financial obligations caused by unexpected circumstances. We served over 46 people…
The Hope Center seeks out and teams with volunteers from congregations of many faiths.The Center is committed to serving people in need in Waukesha County, Wisconsin through financial assistance, food, child care, clothing and…
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Helping families and individuals experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence.
To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.
Programs designed to serve the community's needs including a soup kitchen, family shelter, inns, food pantry, and other services.
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
Homeless shelter
The lake area free clinic is the medical and dental home to low-income residents of waukesha county. the mission is to provide high-quality comprehensive health care to those in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethel House of Whitewater Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity in Walworth County 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 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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.
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 COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK & WALWORTH COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SIDE BY SIDE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 Generations Inc ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL METHODS IN LEARNING EQUINE SKILLS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE 14TH APOSTLE ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC DBA EAST TROY FAMILY COMMUNITY RES CTR ↗
- Who funds J12 24 SEEDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL HOUSE OF WHITEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN WALWORTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIME IS NOW TO HELP INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY WOMEN'S CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY ↗
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: Kunes Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Keefe Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Ulla & Bertil Brunk Foundation Inc · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Pentair Foundation · Tom & Donna Neshek Family Foundation · Baird 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 Walworth County 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.