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United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across wisconsin.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Employment$209kPhilanthropy$163kHealth$119kReligion$20kCivil Rights$14k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $179,094, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,196,564 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,017,470 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
$14,446
Median grant
1
States reached
$889k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC$95,915
WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS$39,855
UNITE WISCONSIN INC$14,446
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC$11,018
UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC$10,239
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC$7,621
02The need
03

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 (FY23–23, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MILWAUKEE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $54k → 17%UNITEMKE INC: $112k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$295k · 4 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -10% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$295k
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
-15%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • GR
    GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $193k · revenue +8%
  • WA
    Wisconsin Association of Free & Charitab
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue -13%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $29k · revenue -10%

Funded once

  • UNITEMKE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $112k · revenue -15%
  • MILWAUKEE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $54k · revenue +6%
  • WC
    WISCONSIN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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.

1
United Way of Illinois

Strengthen United Way movement in Illinois

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Wayne County Inc

United way of wayne county is a community based organization, working in partnership with local non-profit organizations to strategically address many of our community's social issues. united way of wayne county invested in a number of…

Philanthropy
3
United Way Manitowoc County Inc

United way's mission is to improve lives.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Greater Toledo

United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.

Philanthropy
6
Greater Ottawa County United Way

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of community to advance the common good. greater ottawa county united way supports, develops, and implements a range of impact solutions that improve lives and creates stronger communities.

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7
United Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry

The mission of united way greater union county is to improve lives and build strong communities by uniting individuals and organizations with the will, passion, expertise, and resources needed to solve problems.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Greater Lafayette

Mission - mobilizing our community to action so all can thrive vision - for over 100 years, we have partnered with local nonprofits, businesses, community leaders, donors and volunteers to create solutions that address the most complex…

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Dane County Foundation Inc

The United Way of Dane County Foundation, Inc. exists to support the United Way of Dane County mission: to unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives. By providing a base of support, the Foundation helps United Way…

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10
South Central Wisconsin Area Health Education Center Inc

Administer education and training programs for health professionals that are aimed at improving access to health care, with an emphasis on rural and under-served communities.

Education
11
United Way of Johnson & Washington Counties Inc

United way of johnson & washington counties, inc. (uwjwc) unites in purpose to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.

Philanthropy
12
Greater Twin Cities United Way

For 110 years, greater twin cities united way (united way), a nonprofit, has demonstrated that whenever there's a community need in the greater twin cities region, united way is there. united way's efforts continually evolve to respond to…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Rivers United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wisconsin Association of Free & Charitab. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $192,785 · PhilanthropyGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $29,270 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INCINDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC: $13,696 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC: $13,423 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $10,239 · PhilanthropyUNITEMKE INC: $111,769 · Human ServicesUNITEMKE INCMILWAUKEE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $54,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CEN…Wisconsin Association of Free & Charitab: $59,799 · HealthWisconsin Asso…IMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5,262 · HealthIMPACT ALCOHOL…WISCONSIN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: $20,199 · OtherUNITE WISCONSIN INC: $14,446 · Other
Philanthropy$259,413Human Services$165,769Health$65,061Other$34,645

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $192,785 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetUNITEMKE INC: $111,769 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetWisconsin Association of Free & Charitab: $59,799 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $54,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $29,270 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC: $13,696 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC: $13,423 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $10,239 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $5,262 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The Medical College o…United Way of Greater…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way WorldwideBaird Foundation IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Medical College of Wisconsin IncWI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way Worldwide · Baird Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Wisconsin Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Wisconsin Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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