A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$50k–250k17 grants · $2.2M
$250k+3 grants · $903k

$140,911

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CAP SERVICES INC	$331,609
COULEECAP INC	$319,777
INDIANHEAD COMM ACTION AGENCY	$251,829
WISTAF	$203,233
WESTERN DAIRYLAND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC	$200,389
COMMUNITY ACTION INC ROCKWALWORTH	$200,136
LAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN	$192,697
CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC	$191,157
COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN	$171,306
COMMUNITY RELATIONS - SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION	$166,586
FOUNDATION FOR RURAL HOUSING	$140,911
NEWCAP	$131,365
ADVOCAP	$113,486
WEST CENTRAL CAA	$85,621
SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC	$72,438

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 17 repeat orgs$511k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$511k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

Still filing today

94%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterMembership BenefitCrime & LegalSocial ScienceOther

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

CI
COULEECAP INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +107%
CS
CAP SERVICES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +3%
NI
NEWCAP INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $904k · revenue +62%

Funded once

WT
WISCONSIN TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $203k · revenue 0%
IA
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES
one grant, 2024 · $68k · revenue 0%
OA
OHIO ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES
one grant, 2024 · $61k · revenue 0% · 31% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services

Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporated

To strengthen and serve community action in wisconsin.

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The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement

Community Action Commission of Belmont County

Community assistance

Human Services

Northwest Indiana Community Action Corporation

CoAction envisions the people of Northwest Indiana flourishing regardless of income, ability or age. Thus, people experiencing financial hardship find opportunities, resources and respect at CoAction.

Community Improvement

Muskegon-Oceana Community Action Partnership Inc

Through dedicated staff and community partnerships we provide services, resources, education and advocacy to improve the quality of life for all residents of muskegon and oceana counties.

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Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico Inc

Caasnm is a 60 year-old new mexico statewide health and social services not for profit with a mission of uplifting low-income families by connecting communities, encouraging family wellness, empowering families, and bridging resources.

Human Services

Community Action Program for Central Arkansas

In partnership with our community, capca is committed to educating eligible participants by providing quality services which empower lives, expand self-reliance and increase community involvement.

Human Services

Community Action Board

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.

Employment

Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services

Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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Community Action Partnership of Middle Alabama Inc

Providing low income individuals home energy assistance and providing emergency assitance as needed

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Central Wisconsin Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Michigan Community Action Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/23

the rest of the field

3,022/36,503

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 23 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

12/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,402,496Human Services$3,341,059Membership Benefit$1,712,545Community Improvement$969,826Crime & Legal$203,233Housing & Shelter$155,574Social Science$58,845

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.

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.

Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care IncWI30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care Inc · Wheda Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Hunger Task Force Inc · Minnesota Community Action Partnership · The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporated 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

7report 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, FY20–24

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines