· Public charity
United Way of Washington County Inc
Mobilize the caring power of washington county to improve lives and community conditions in measurable and lasting ways.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $1,169,910 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,433,993 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $264,083 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $980k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $132,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $130,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $130,000 |
| THE THRESHOLD INC | $111,500 |
| FRIENDS INC | $101,500 |
| ELEVATE INC | $98,560 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $82,500 |
| INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $73,000 |
| THE YOUTH FAMILY PROJECT INC | $62,500 |
| CASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER | $57,750 |
| KETTLE MORAINE YMCA | $42,200 |
| LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $30,000 |
| FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| NAMI WASHINGTON COUNTY INC | $15,900 |
| IMPACT INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
30 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- EIELEVATE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $837k · revenue +157%
- TTTHE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $803k · revenue +17%
FRIENDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $695k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- 4C4C - CHILDRENone grant, 2018 · $38k
- FCFAMILY CENTER OF WASHINGTON CNTYone grant, 2017 · $29k
- WRWISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $29k · revenue +43%
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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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…
To provide family and individual counseling
To strengthen and empower families and communities by providing accessible evidenced-based counseling, crisis response, outreach, and education. To help build a community united in actively supporting emotional and mental well-being. FSC…
Provider of treatment foster care for children and youth with complex needs.
Building stronger communities, strengthening families, and empowering individuals through compassionate, life changing programs and mental health services.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Child care aware of washington provides thorough and independent information and support for families seeking quality child care, for child care programs seeking to improve quality, and for effective policy making.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Washington County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Senior Citizens Activities 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 46 years old; the field is 22. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 36 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 ELEVATE INC ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF WASHINGTON COUN ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH AND FAMILY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds DR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds 4C For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds FORWARD CAREERS INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF SHEBOYGAN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST 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: West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Froedtert West Bend Hospital Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn · Prescott Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Westbury Bank Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family 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 Washington 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.
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.