How much did Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

clinicstudentscouts

2020

clinicstudent

2021

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2022

free clinicscouts

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$2k

Total assets

Largest grants

World Affairs Seminar$4,180
Rotary Club of Milwaukee$4,000
Habitat for Humanity$3,000
Blessings in a Backpack$2,500
The Rotary Foundation$2,015
The Womens Center$2,000
Family Promise of Waukesha$2,000
Lake Area Free Clinic$1,500
Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation$1,500
Literary Services of WI$1,500
Variety - the Childrens Charity$1,500
Community Smiles Dental$1,000
Greater Milw El Sistema$1,000
Rotary Club of Milwaukee$1,000
Waukesha Public Library$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$213k · 31 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$213k

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+108%

Still filing today

45%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

ERAs Senior Network
5× · 2018–2023 · $11k · revenue +57%
TW
The Womens Center
5× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +41%
Lake Area Free Clinic
5× · 2018–2023 · $8k · revenue +410%

Funded once

VR
Vykinto Rotary Club - Ukraine
one grant, 2022 · $4k
PP
PARENTS PLACE INC
one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -1%
LI
LifeStriders Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +222%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides day services and employment services including job development, training, and day-to-day support to consumers with developmental disabilities.

Human Services

Family Voices of Wisconsin Inc

To assist families who have children with disabilities.

Health

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Lifeways of Wisconsin Inc

Operation of childcare centers based on the waldorf teaching method. nurturing children, families, caregivers and communities. lifeways welcomes children and families of any race, religion,

Human Services

Wausau Child Care Inc

Strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.

Human Services

Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy

Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

Advance the interests of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired.

Health

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (innovative care services) is made up of over 350 caring team members serving people with disabilities throughout wisconsin. innovative provides community supported living, residential care, and mental health care…

Human Services

Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc

Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.

Education

Autism Society of Greater Wisconsin Inc

We create connections, empowering everyone in the Autism community with the resources needed to live fully.

Health

Wisconsin Family Ties Inc

Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cops and Kids Foundation 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/27

the rest of the field

205/2,489

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/26

Grantees still filing

19/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$193,893Health$30,500Human Services$16,000Arts & Culture$6,000Youth Development$4,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Education$2,000Animals$1,100

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.

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.

Waukesha County Community FoundationWI41.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waukesha County Community Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Foundation · Stackner Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Women and Girls Fund Of · Youth Foundation Inc · Emil Ewald Family 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 organisation Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Good Friend Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 260731915 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Good Friend Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc?

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Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc?

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