· Private foundation
Wipfli Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $187k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| CANCER WELLNESS CENTER | $25,000 |
| MARQUETTE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR WORK EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT | $25,000 |
| BRANFORD FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| MAYA'S MUSIC THERAPY FUND | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC | $20,000 |
| LIFE HOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| ARTISTYEAR | $15,000 |
| WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| CENTER FOR WARRIORS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF KENNEBEC | $10,000 |
| MARQUETTE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 32 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $298k 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
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +153%- UFUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +3%
- WCWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CACAF AMERICA (CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION)one grant, 2022 · $74k
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +8%- APASCEND - PAN-ASIAN LEADERSone grant, 2022 · $20k
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
148 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. 148 of the 225 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE ALUMNI & FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CPA ENDOWMENT FUND OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MAYA'S MUSIC THERAPY FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF COOK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Billings Foundation & Alumni ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTYEAR ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE 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 · Ernst & Young Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Presser Foundation · Deloitte 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 Wipfli 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.
- Camelot Community Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.
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