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Wisconsin 4-H Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Wisconsin 4-H Foundation Inc

The wisconsin 4-h foundation generates resources to invest in the positive development of 4-h youth.

$962k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$628k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$1.5MFood & Nutrition$830kYouth Development$822kCommunity Improvement$167kRecreation & Sports$36k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $897,265, the rows itemized in this filing. The $961,765 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $64,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $202k
  • $250k+1 grant · $628k
$17,731
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EQUITY COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION$628,178
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION$201,990
JEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H$18,200
WAUSHARA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK COMMITTEE DBA UW-EXTENSION WAUSHARA$17,731
WAUPACA COUNTY LARGE MARKET ANIMAL SALE COMMITTEE DBA UW-EXTENSION WAUPACA$14,076
SHAWANO COUNTY 4-H LEADERS INC$9,090
FRIENDS OF ROCK COUNTY FAIR$8,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WAUKESHA COUNTY 4-H LEADERS ASSOCIATION: $9k → 5%SAINT CROIX 4-H: $8k → 5%4-H AMERICAN SPIRIT COMMITTEE: $15k → 6%WI ASSOC OF EXTENSION 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS (WAE4-HYDP): $27k → 8%JEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H: $18k → 8%EQUITY COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $757k → 9%FRIENDS OF ROCK COUNTY: $22k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION: $241k → 10%MARATHON COUNTY 4-H LEADERS FEDERATION: $19k → 11%WAUPACA COUNTY LARGE MARKET ANIMAL SALE COMMITTEE DBA UW-EXTENSION WAUPACA: $18k → 11%SHAWANO COUNTY 4-H LEADERS INC: $9k → 11%MARINETTE COUNTY 4-H LEADERS ASSOCIATION: $7k → 12%WAUSHARA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK COMMITTEE DBA UW-EXTENSION WAUSHARA: $20k → 15%ADAMS COUNTY 4-H: $12k → 16%4-H AMERICAN SPIRIT COMMITTEE: $12k → 6%WAE4HYDP: $10k → 8%EQUITY COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $628k → 9%FRIENDS OF ROCK COUNTY FAIR: $17k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION: $233k → 10%WAUPACA COUNTY LARGE MARKET ANIMAL SALE COMMITTEE DBA UW-EXTENSION WAUPACA: $14k → 11%WAUSHARA COUNTY JUNIOR LIVESTOCK COMMITTEE DBA UW-EXTENSION WAUSHARA: $18k → 15%UPHAM WOODS: $167k → 16%FRIENDS OF ROCK COUNTY FAIR: $11k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION: $221k → 10%FRIENDS OF ROCK COUNTY FAIR: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION: $208k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION: $202k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION: $174k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION: $110k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION: $95k → 10%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 7 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$3.1M
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-97%
-21%

Still filing today

14%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M
  • EC
    EQUITY COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ROCK COUNTY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $58k

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Wisconsin Madison
    one grant, 2021 · $167k
  • MC
    MARATHON COUNTY 4-H LEADERS FEDERATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +18% · 45% of their budget
  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $1,484,152 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINEQUITY COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $1,385,204 · OtherEQUITY COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATIONUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $167,121 · Other+7 more: $201,946 · Other+7 more4-H AMERICAN SPIRIT: $27,257 · Youth DevelopmentMARATHON COUNTY 4-H LEADERS FEDERATION INC: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHAWANO COUNTY 4-H LEADERS INC: $9,090 · Youth DevelopmentWAUKESHA COUNTY 4-H LEADER'S ASSOCIATION INC: $8,942 · Youth DevelopmentBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $8,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,238,423Youth Development$72,289

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget4-H AMERICAN SPIRIT: $27,257 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetMARATHON COUNTY 4-H LEADERS FEDERATION INC: $19,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H CLUBS &: $18,200 over 1y, 47% of budgetSHAWANO COUNTY 4-H LEADERS INC: $9,090 over 1y, 14% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY 4-H LEADER'S ASSOCIATION INC: $8,942 over 1y, 15% of budgetBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $8,000 over 1y, 17% 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.

  • Who funds 4-H AMERICAN SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds MARATHON COUNTY 4-H LEADERS FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY 4-H CLUBS & ↗
  • Who funds SHAWANO COUNTY 4-H LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY 4-H LEADER'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wisconsin 4-H Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin 4-H Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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