· Private foundation
Walter Alexander Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC WISCONSI | $85,000 |
| CITY OF WAUSAU | $64,800 |
| SAYNER COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| WAUSAU EAST HIGH SCHOOL | $22,500 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| WAUSAU WEST HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| NORTHWOODS CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FORT WILDERNESS MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| WALLEYE RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARATHON COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| FAITH IN ACTION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WYWAUSAU YMCA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +21%
- LBLEARN BUILD FLY INC2× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +434%
- WNWAUSAU NORDIC SKI CLUB INC3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MBMONK BOTANICAL GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $250k
ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%- BJBOULDER JUNCTION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +132%
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.
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.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
The mission of the west wisconsin land trust, inc. is to preserve western wisconsin's natural character by informing, facilitating, and partnering with private landowners, communities, and local governments to protect valuable land.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
Education museum open to the public
The organization is dedicated to natural resource restoration, preservation and education with youth and community involvement.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
To educate visitors of all ages about how and where their food is produced and why agriculture is so important to them.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 97 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WAUSAU YMCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN BUILD FLY INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER JUNCTION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE HAGAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU NORDIC SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Dudley Foundation Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Paul & Ruth Schultz Fdn Agy · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Dan Storey Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter Alexander Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter Alexander Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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