· Community foundation
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 99 grants below total $4,450,789 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,630,686 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $179,897 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $555,500 |
| MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART | $294,644 |
| UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $273,886 |
| CITY OF WEST BEND | $198,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $147,068 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC | $140,717 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC | $110,350 |
| RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC | $108,250 |
| PLAYING FIELD INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON BURSAR OFFICE | $97,500 |
| MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION | $90,400 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $87,550 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WISCONSIN | $83,040 |
| FORWARD CAREERS INC | $81,000 |
| ALL-IN MILWAUKEE | $80,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 31 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $762k 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
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +32%
UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +24%
CEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $797k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -69%
- BCBAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $252k · revenue -14%
- LNLEGACY NASHVILLEone grant, 2023 · $250k
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
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…
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.
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
The mission of wausau child care inc. is to strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Cusd 5. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
153 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 153 of the 179 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 MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WEST BEND THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RAY OF HOPE MEDICAL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST BEND COMMUNITY & ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST BEND BASEBALL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRYON RIESCH PARALYSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS OF WASHINGTON COUN ↗
- Who funds CASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION 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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn · Prescott Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Westbury Bank Charitable Foundation · United Way of Washington County Inc · Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Froedtert West Bend Hospital 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 West Bend Community Foundation 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.