Wisconsin · Community foundation
Whitewater Community Foundation
Enhance quality of life in Whitewater area via educational, cultural, charitable or benevolent expenditures
- $522k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $446k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $142,197
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $245,559
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2017 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 67% of the organizations Whitewater Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 3 | $446k | 33% |
| FY2025 | 3 | $1.9M | 67% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $136k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $35k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $61k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $16k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitewater Fire Department Inc | $439,090 | 2 | n/a |
| The Community Space | $15,566 | 1 | n/a |
| Feeding America | $5,992 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
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About Whitewater Community Foundation
- How much does Whitewater Community Foundation give?
- Whitewater Community Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $445,933, out of $521,934 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2025.
- What does Whitewater Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Food & Nutrition (1%), Education (1%).
- Who are Whitewater Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Whitewater Fire Department Inc ($439k), The Community Space ($16k), Feeding America ($6k).
- Does Whitewater Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Whitewater Community Foundation based?
- Whitewater Community Foundation is based in WI.
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