Wisconsin · Public charity
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
Wcma is a trade association with a stated mission to be the voice of the cheese industry using the collective knowledge and expertise of its members to promote excellence in the u.s. Cheese industry.
- $7.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 90
- Grants FY2025
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 99%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $76,684
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $288,730
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 99% of the organizations Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 90 | $7.0M | 63% |
| FY2024 | 76 | $5.1M | 99% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $100k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Food & Nutrition$11MEnvironment$475kEducation$304kCommunity Improvement$183kHealth$168kEmployment$167kAnimals$105kRecreation & Sports$53k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
MN
IL
WI
MI
SD
IA
IN
OH
NE
MO
KS
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc | $540,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Specialty Cheese Inc | $408,549 | 2 | n/a |
| Rosewood Dairy Inc | $305,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sartori Company | $303,834 | 2 | n/a |
| Hidden Springs Creamery LLC | $286,337 | 2 | n/a |
| Concept Processing LLC | $281,954 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin | $250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Alpinage Cheese LLC | $239,431 | 2 | n/a |
| Goodsport Nutrition LLC | $231,125 | 2 | n/a |
| Holland's Family Cheese | $215,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc | $540,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Specialty Cheese Inc | $408,549 | 2 | n/a |
| Rosewood Dairy Inc | $305,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sartori Company | $303,834 | 2 | n/a |
| Hidden Springs Creamery LLC | $286,337 | 2 | n/a |
| Concept Processing LLC | $281,954 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin | $250,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Alpinage Cheese LLC | $239,431 | 2 | n/a |
| Goodsport Nutrition LLC | $231,125 | 2 | n/a |
| Holland's Family Cheese | $215,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cedar Grove Cheese Inc | $208,627 | 2 | n/a |
| Widmer's Cheese Cellars Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dari LLC | $197,783 | 2 | n/a |
| Farm Life Creamery LLC | $191,872 | 2 | n/a |
| Semifreddo LLC | $180,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Knueven Creamery LLC | $175,806 | 1 | n/a |
| Tulip Tree Creamery Inc | $171,719 | 2 | n/a |
| Milk Specialties Global Inc | $167,572 | 2 | n/a |
| Two Cows Creamery LLC | $166,229 | 2 | n/a |
| Bold Spoon Creamery LLC | $153,331 | 2 | n/a |
| Brunkow Cheese of Wisconsin Inc | $133,680 | 1 | n/a |
| Redhead Creamery | $123,801 | 2 | n/a |
| Pine River Pre-Pack Inc | $119,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Birch Point Distillery | $111,096 | 1 | n/a |
| Landmark Creamery | $110,008 | 2 | n/a |
| Black Raddish Creamery | $108,810 | 2 | n/a |
| Cinnamon Ridge Inc | $108,472 | 1 | n/a |
| Marcoot Jersey Creamery LLC | $105,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hildebrand Farms Inc | $102,841 | 2 | n/a |
| Nadia Alber | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Uplands Cheese | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Farm Stapels | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sassy Cow Creamery | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gardner's Wisconsin Cheese LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kuehnert Milk House | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hinterland Dairy Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Royal Guernsey Creamery LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| State Street Grill | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesta Meadows LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Watershed Foods LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eau Galle Cheese Factory LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amazing Ice Cream LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rokey Road Creamery LLC | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Dairy Distillery Alliance | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thistle Dew Dairy | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Maytag Dairy Farms LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Snowville Creamery | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jb's Barnyard (Vendor) | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shatto Farms Inc | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hill Valley Dairy | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Country View Dairy | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wiscon Corporation Dba Caputo Cheese | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amo Creamery LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Buckeye Milk House LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Green Dirt Farm LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Picket Fence Creamery LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bekkum Family Farms | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Burnett Dairy Cooperative | $98,895 | 1 | n/a |
| Baker's Golden Dairy LLC | $98,865 | 1 | n/a |
| Flying Dog LLC | $98,503 | 1 | n/a |
| Happy Cows Creamery | $97,094 | 2 | n/a |
| Martha & Tom's Farm | $94,189 | 1 | n/a |
| Tranquil Oaks Ranch LLC | $94,106 | 1 | n/a |
| Goat Milk Stuff LLC | $90,640 | 1 | n/a |
| Stil Dreamin Dairy LLC | $88,826 | 1 | n/a |
| Augment LLC | $86,078 | 2 | n/a |
| Smith Brothers Creamery LLC | $84,225 | 1 | n/a |
| Jbs Farms LLC | $84,011 | 1 | n/a |
| Udderly Divine Creamery | $83,575 | 1 | n/a |
| McT Dairies Inc | $80,363 | 1 | n/a |
| Saltless Sea Creamery LLC | $80,260 | 2 | n/a |
| Sundae Morning Dairy LLC | $79,343 | 1 | n/a |
| Heather Moore - Moore Family Farm | $76,684 | 1 | n/a |
| Copper Crow Distillery Inc | $76,675 | 1 | n/a |
| Terrell Creek Farm LLC | $73,341 | 1 | n/a |
| The Mullen Dairy and Creamery LLC | $72,446 | 1 | n/a |
| Streetpops Inc | $69,879 | 1 | n/a |
| Kilgus Farmstead | $69,397 | 1 | n/a |
| Murphy's Grove LLC | $65,930 | 1 | n/a |
| Beauty View Dairy Products LLC (Melisa Konecky) | $61,901 | 1 | n/a |
| Highfield Farm Creamery | $57,891 | 2 | n/a |
| Charlevoix Cheese Company Inc | $53,947 | 1 | n/a |
| Hightail | $53,518 | 1 | n/a |
| Protein Pints LLC | $53,308 | 1 | n/a |
| Ozark Mountain Creamery Inc | $52,798 | 1 | n/a |
| Love Creamery LLC | $52,608 | 1 | n/a |
| David Florence | $50,608 | 1 | n/a |
| Rolling Lawn Farms | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Union Star Cheese Factory's | $48,052 | 1 | n/a |
| Strack View Farms LLC | $47,810 | 2 | n/a |
| Blue Ice Creamery | $46,864 | 1 | n/a |
| Reny Pico - Old Europe Cheese | $46,861 | 1 | n/a |
| Vieira Ventures LLC Swanky Scoops | $46,591 | 2 | n/a |
| Bobell Cheese Company | $46,460 | 1 | n/a |
| Jacob Mills | $45,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fromage Spa LLC | $41,993 | 1 | n/a |
| Hemme Dairy LLC | $41,067 | 1 | n/a |
| Jisa Farmstead Cheese Inc | $36,031 | 1 | n/a |
| Radiance Dairy | $34,813 | 1 | n/a |
| Ms J & Company Inc | $32,326 | 2 | n/a |
| Blakesville Creamery | $29,449 | 1 | n/a |
| Troyer Specialty Foods Inc | $29,446 | 1 | n/a |
| Rolling Hills Dairy Producers Cooperative Inc | $27,290 | 2 | n/a |
| Freshly Dairy LLC | $26,124 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Berning Acres Inc | $18,244 | 1 | n/a |
| Two Guernsey Girls Creamery | $16,384 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie Farms Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie Homestead Creamery | $12,287 | 1 | n/a |
| Grison Dairy & Creamery | $11,587 | 1 | n/a |
| Lost Lake Farm LLC | $10,669 | 1 | n/a |
| Geneva Dairy LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mossy Creek Farm (Vendor) | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Willemsen Dairy | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Holland Dairy LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nasonville Dairy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nedved Family Farms | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heartland Dairy Holdings LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milkhaus Dairy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scott Korkowski | $9,988 | 1 | n/a |
| Tranel Family Farms LLC | $9,863 | 1 | n/a |
| Inguran LLC | $9,491 | 1 | n/a |
| Serendipity Farmstead | $8,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Associated Milk Producers Inc | $8,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Lax-Pietig Dairy LLC | $8,040 | 1 | n/a |
| Cannonbelles Cheese Inc | $7,276 | 1 | n/a |
| Cider Farm Brands LLC | $6,350 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($191k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Food Export Association of the Midwest USAIL14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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.
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About Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
- How much does Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association give?
- Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association reported 90 grants totaling $7,045,709 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (88%), Environment (4%), Education (2%).
- Who are Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc ($540k), Specialty Cheese Inc ($409k), Rosewood Dairy Inc ($305k).
- Does Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 99% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Food Export Association of the Midwest USA.
- Where is Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association based?
- Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association is based in WI.
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