· Public charity
Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc
Grant funds to nonprofit organizations
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $4,180 |
| Rotary Club of Milwaukee | $4,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $3,000 |
| Blessings in a Backpack | $2,500 |
| The Rotary Foundation | $2,015 |
| Family Promise of Waukesha | $2,000 |
| The Womens Center | $2,000 |
| Bryon Riesch Paralysis Foundation | $1,500 |
| Lake Area Free Clinic | $1,500 |
| Literary Services of WI | $1,500 |
| Variety - the Childrens Charity | $1,500 |
| Greater Milw El Sistema | $1,000 |
| Waukesha Civic Theater | $1,000 |
| Waukesha Public Library | $1,000 |
| Girl Scouts of WI SE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC6× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +114%
ERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC6× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +57%- TWTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- VRVykinto Rotary Club - Ukraineone grant, 2022 · $4k
- PPPARENTS PLACE INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -12%
- LILIFESTRIDERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +108%
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.
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.
Enriching the lives of children with physical or developmental special needs and their families.
Provide training and informational materials to families of children and youth with disabilities to enable them to understand and use the supports and services provided by private and public health care and community systems.
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,
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…
The mission of women and children's horizons, inc. is to provide support, shelter, education, training, and healing services to victims of sexual and domestic abuse, their families, and the community.
The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…
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.
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.
To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bryon Riesch Paralysis 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 39 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 — 3% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 67 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRYON RIESCH PARALYSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Milwaukee El Sistema Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMI SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIEND INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PARENTS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESTRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Windhover 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 organization 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.
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.