· Public charity
University of Wisconsin Credit Union
The mission of the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN CREDIT UNION (uwcu) is to encourage thrift among its members, to create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable rate of interest, to provide an opportunity for its members to improve their economic and social conditions and to perform the functions and exercise the powers designated to the…
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $133,509 |
| COMMUNITY SHARES OF WI | $28,125 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC | $20,000 |
| OPERATION FRESH START INC | $20,000 |
| PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC | $20,000 |
| UWM FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC | $20,000 |
| THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON | $20,000 |
| BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTIES | $8,634 |
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 (FY18–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $502k · revenue +39%
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +35%- CSCOMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- FRFILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +20%
KINSHIP MKE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +272%- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
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…
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus
Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. 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 55 years old; the field is 21. 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 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 23 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 UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON REGION ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Summit Credit Union
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 University of Wisconsin Credit Union 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.