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Wheda Foundation Inc

The WHEDA Foundation Inc and WHEDA make grant funds available annually through a Housing Grants competition.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$4.5MHuman Services$1.9MHealth$480kCrime & Legal$304kReligion$289kPublic Safety & Disaster$266kCommunity Improvement$215kEducation$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 60 grants below total $2,369,041, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,482,384 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $113,343 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $846k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $1.5M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
La Casa de Esperenza Inc$59,911
Pillars Inc$50,000
Taylor County Housing Authority$50,000
Womens Resource Center of Racine Inc$50,000
Personal Development Center Inc$50,000
Covey Inc$50,000
Golden House Inc$50,000
Serenity Inns Inc$50,000
Burlington Transitional Living Center Inc$50,000
Christine Ann Domestic$50,000
The Salvation Army of Dane County$50,000
The Salvation Army$50,000
Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity$50,000
Bayfield County Housing Authority$50,000
The Rodney Scheel House Foundation$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Balance Inc: $46k → 6%Creative Community Living Services Inc: $49k → 8%Solutions Center Shelter and Support Services Inc: $12k → 9%HALO Inc: $50k → 10%Golden House Inc: $50k → 10%CAP Services Inc: $50k → 10%Personal Development Center Inc: $50k → 11%Embrace Services Inc: $50k → 13%Balance Inc: $45k → 6%Solutions Center Shelter and Support Services Inc: $12k → 9%Golden House Inc: $50k → 10%CAP Services Inc: $31k → 10%Personal Development Center Inc: $50k → 11%Northwoods Women Inc: $34k → 14%Balance Inc: $45k → 6%FRIENDS Inc: $25k → 6%Family Promise of Green County Inc: $33k → 7%HALO Inc: $50k → 10%CAP Services Inc: $12k → 10%Christine Ann Domestic: $50k → 11%Northwoods Women inc dba: $30k → 14%FRIENDS Inc: $15k → 6%SAFE Haven of Racine Inc: $48k → 10%CAP Services Inc: $12k → 10%Day By Day Shelter: $14k → 11%FRIENDS Inc: $15k → 6%Family Promise of Green County Inc: $26k → 7%Day By Day Shelter: $9k → 11%YWCA Rock County: $23k → 10%Elevate Inc: $6k → 6%Family Services of S WI & N IL-Defy Domestic Abuse Beloit: $41k → 10%Movin' Out Inc: $50k → 10%Elevate Inc: $6k → 6%SAFE Haven of Racine Inc: $20k → 10%Family Services of S WI N IL Defy Domestic Abuse Beloit: $41k → 10%Movin Out Inc: $50k → 10%Serenity Inns Inc: $50k → 17%SAFE Haven of Racine Inc: $20k → 10%Movin Out Inc: $50k → 10%United Methodist Childrens Services: $31k → 17%Movin Out Inc: $50k → 10%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $50k → 17%YWCA Madison: $26k → 10%YWCA Madison: $14k → 10%Pathfinders: $9k → 17%Down Syndrome Association of Wisconsin Inc: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 64 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
36

Total granted

$5.6M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WR
    WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $199k · revenue +150%
  • EC
    EAU CLAIRE AREA HMONG MUTUAL ASSIST
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +105%
  • TH
    TOMORROW'S HOME FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +33% · 52% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Mauston Housing Authority
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • CI
    COTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -24%
  • OC
    Outagamie County Housing Authority
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha County Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
2
Housing Action Coalition of Waukesha County Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
3
The Women's Center Inc

To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.

Human Services
4
Neighborhood Housing Services of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

—
6
The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc

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,…

Housing & Shelter
7
Friendship House of Milwaukee
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8
Muscatine Center for Social Action

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.

Community Improvement
9
Co-Care Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
Samaritan House Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
Manitowoc County Habitat for Humanity Inc

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need

—
12
Cathedral Center Inc

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…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/99
Grantees still filing
48/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $351,472 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYEAU CLAIRE AREA HMONG MUTUAL ASSIST: $150,000 · OtherHousing Authority of Pepin County: $150,000 · OtherRusk County Housing Authority: $139,749 · OtherBayfield County Housing Authority: $134,100 · Other+49 more: $2,327,876 · Other+49 moreNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF GREEN BAY INC: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES…TOMORROW'S HOME FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterTOMORROW'S HOME FOUNDATION IN…PILLARS INC: $124,050 · Housing & ShelterPILLARS INCHEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES: $123,000 · Housing & ShelterHEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY I…PORCHLIGHT INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterReadstown Housing For The Elderly: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterBURLINGTON TRANSITIONAL LIVING: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterLighthouseOrg Inc: $94,580 · Housing & ShelterBARABOO AREA HOMELESS SHELTER: $86,194 · Housing & ShelterBENJAMIN'S HOUSE EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $77,500 · Housing & ShelterMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $75,000 · Housing & Shelter+17 more: $694,570 · Housing & Shelter+17 moreMOVIN OUT INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesMOVIN OUT INCWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC: $199,360 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF…Balance Inc: $136,000 · Human ServicesBalance IncHOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADER…GOLDEN HOUSE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HOUSE INCPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTE…CAP SERVICES INC: $92,767 · Human ServicesSAFE HAVEN OF RACINE INC: $87,160 · Human ServicesBOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC: $84,044 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC: $82,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWOODS WOMEN INC: $64,655 · Human Services+15 more: $608,405 · Human Services+15 moreTELLURIAN INC: $100,000 · HealthNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC: $80,000 · HealthHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $61,160 · HealthCOVEY INC: $50,000 · HealthGRACE LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC: $48,500 · HealthWOMEN IN TRANSITION INC: $30,875 · HealthROCK VALLEY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC: $140,245 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $98,450 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK & WALWORTH COUNTIES: $62,117 · Community ImprovementRACINE REVITALIZATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementGreen County Development Corporation: $30,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $28,850 · Community ImprovementHMONG WISCONSIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $5,931 · Community ImprovementOSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT 1649 INC: $42,129 · Youth Development
Other$3,253,197Housing & Shelter$2,074,894Human Services$1,854,391Health$370,535Crime & Legal$238,695Community Improvement$176,898Youth Development$92,129

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOVIN OUT INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF RACINE INC: $199,360 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetEAU CLAIRE AREA HMONG MUTUAL ASSIST: $150,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF GREEN BAY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOME FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetROCK VALLEY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC: $140,245 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBalance Inc: $136,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPILLARS INC: $124,050 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES: $123,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetReadstown Housing For The Elderly: $100,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetHOMELESS ASSISTANCE LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHWOODS VILLAGE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetOSSEO HOUSING INC: $100,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetTELLURIAN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBURLINGTON TRANSITIONAL LIVING: $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $98,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC: $94,755 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLighthouseOrg Inc: $94,580 over 3y, 27% of budgetCAP SERVICES INC: $92,767 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HAVEN OF RACINE INC: $87,160 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC: $84,044 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC: $82,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOUSE EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $77,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAgape Help Center Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetPASSAGES A PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $70,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFall Creek Valley Housing Inc: $64,720 over 2y, 29% of budgetNORTHWOODS WOMEN INC: $64,655 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHANNAH CENTER INC: $64,650 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF ROCK & WALWORTH COUNTIES: $62,117 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEAU CLAIRE COUNTY HOUSING INC: $62,104 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $61,160 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC: $59,911 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $59,290 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $59,257 over 2y, 20% of budgetFRIENDS INC: $54,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSERENITY INNS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHO-CHUNK HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Otto Bremer TrustGreater Green Bay Com…Wisconsin Balance of …Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Alliant Energy Founda…Community Foundation …Basic Needs Giving Pa…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI86.8× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wheda Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wheda Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Wheda Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wheda Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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