· Public charity
Wbd Inc
Wbd is a business finance resource that provides the knowledge, services and access to capital needed to create jobs, grow businesses and build communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $530,760 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $569,065 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,305 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $465k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WISCONSIN VETERANS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC | $150,000 |
| WISCONSIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
| WISCONSIN WOMENS BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION | $64,760 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| FAMILY FRIENDLY WORKPLACES INC | $50,000 |
| SHAKOPEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHAYIL INC | $45,000 |
| NEW NORTH INC | $21,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Wbd Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- WWWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION7× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +43%
- WEWISCONSIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $337k · revenue +15% · 36% of their budget
- NENORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- HAHMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- FFFOR-M FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- MCMIDDLETON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.
The wcmp will grow and nurture the mep's impact in the state of wisconsin by engaging and aligning the best possible resources to help small and medium-sized manufacturers reach their potential.
Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…
Develop wisconsin builds and develops business development ecosystems to more effectively and efficiently provide business owners with the resources, support, networks and access to markets that they need to grow. communities with vibrant…
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
To lead wisconsin in development and retention of science and tech-based businesses and to provide policy guidance to lawmakers, the governor of wisconsin, state agencies, and other institutions.
To strengthen our member businesses and enhance our community by building business success.
To serve as the central point of contact for businesses looking to grow in waukesha county.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Hwcc is a community development financial institution (cdfi) providing economic development assistance in business planning, market analysis, marketing strategies, effective day-to-day business operations and much more. hwcc acts as an…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Wisconsin manufacturing extension partnership, inc. optimizes stakeholder value for wisconsin manufacturers by expanding their capabilities to grow, be innovative, and achieve operational success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Chayil Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
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 WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FRIENDLY WORKPLACES INC ↗
- Who funds FOR-M FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DULUTH AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHAKOPEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chayil Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN BANKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RURAL PARTNERS 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: Otto Bremer Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wbd 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.