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Wheda Foundation Inc
The WHEDA Foundation Inc and WHEDA make grant funds available annually through a Housing Grants competition.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 60 grants below total $2,369,041 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,482,384 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $113,343 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $846k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| La Casa de Esperenza Inc | $59,911 |
| Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity | $50,000 |
| Christine Ann Domestic | $50,000 |
| Bayfield County Housing Authority | $50,000 |
| Wisconsin Community Services Inc | $50,000 |
| Redeemer Lutheran Church | $50,000 |
| CAP Services Inc | $50,000 |
| Housing Authority County of Washburn | $50,000 |
| Racine Revitalization Partnership | $50,000 |
| Revitalize Milwaukee | $50,000 |
| Taylor County Housing Authority | $50,000 |
| Serenity Inns Inc | $50,000 |
| The Rodney Scheel House Foundation | $50,000 |
| Veterans 1st of NEW Inc | $50,000 |
| Embrace Services Inc | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
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.
64 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 25 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- WRWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $199k · revenue +150%
- ECEAU CLAIRE AREA HMONG MUTUAL ASSIST3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +105%
- THTOMORROW'S HOME FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +33% · 52% of their budget
Funded once
- COCity of Mauston Housing Authorityone grant, 2024 · $50k
- EIElevate Incone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CICOTS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -24%
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.
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The Housing Action Coalition brings together community resources to address the needs of Waukesha Countys most vulnerable people. The Coalition assists those in need of emergency housing, financial assistance, food and many other…
To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.
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…
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
Guest House of Milwaukee provides a full continuum of services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness or at risk of losing housing. Guest House serves more than 2,000 individuals annually through emergency shelter, housing,…
Mcsa provides housing, basic health care, educational and vocational support services for those in need in muscatine county while working to reduce these needs through long-term social change in the community.
Co-care, inc. built fort howard apartments in order to provide affordable housing for older adults wanting to live in the co-care neighborhood, the near west side of green bay.
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Agape Help Center Inc. 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) — 1% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 125 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 MOVIN OUT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE AREA HMONG MUTUAL ASSIST ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK VALLEY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Balance Inc ↗
- Who funds PILLARS INC ↗
- Who funds HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Revitalize Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON TRANSITIONAL LIVING ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Readstown Housing For The Elderly ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIAN INC ↗
- Who funds OSSEO HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds LighthouseOrg Inc ↗
- Who funds CAP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF RACINE INC ↗
- Who funds BARABOO AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds BOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOUSE EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PASSAGES A PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds Agape Help Center 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber 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 organization Wheda 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.
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.
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