· Public charity
Wisconsin Literacy Inc
Changing lives by strengthening literacy statewide.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k14 grants · $532k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFRICAN HERITAGE INC | $53,514 |
| PEOPLE OF PROGRESSION | $52,438 |
| POINTTERS COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $51,872 |
| NEW HMONG PROFESSIONALS INC | $50,000 |
| BURMESE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY OF WISCONSIN | $48,770 |
| MULTICULTURAL COALITION INC | $47,024 |
| A&S UNLIMITED SOLUTIONS | $46,595 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER FOR IMMIGRANTS INC | $45,897 |
| HMONG AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION | $45,754 |
| MASON TEMPLE CHURCH | $44,664 |
| GREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $44,376 |
| ECARES AGENCY | $43,636 |
| EBENEZER FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER | $40,219 |
| BLACK AND BROWN WOMYN POWER COALITION INC | $33,389 |
| RACINE LITERACY COUNCIL | $30,854 |
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 (FY23–23, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% 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.
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.
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 Literacy Connection is a community-based organization helping adults learners in Elgin and the surrounding northwest suburban area acquire fundamental literacy skills.
Changing lives by strengthening literacy statewide.
To teach adults to read, write and speak english.
To advance literacy within the kansas city metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.
To eradicate illiteracy in cayuga county to create a more productive community. volunteer tutors are trained to help people improve their reading and writing skills and to assist those learning english as a second language.
The CMLC is a community-based center that promotes cultural understanding fosters connections and provides essential services such as English Learning Immigration Support and community-led educational workshops. Our focus is aimed towards…
The vision and mission of cultural diversity resources is "building communities that value inclusion through serving as the intercultural bridge that strengthens bonds, educates, and empowers low income communities."
Lcfbc helps families by raising adult literacy skills, thereby improving economic outlook and quality of life. lcfbc is dedicated to combating functional illiteracy created by the inability to read, write or speak english. programs include…
To provide social and economic empowerment through culturally compassionate english language education.
To provide english as a second language, adult literacy, and family literacy instruction, as well as other educational counseling, assessment, referrals, college transition, and other vocational and educational services to latino adults…
Literacy source provides accessible, high-quality foundational education for adults to create lasting opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities. our vision is that all adults in king county have literacy skills to…
The literacy council of norristown supports adult learners to learn reading, writing, and math, and to prepare for their ged, learn english, and become citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Green Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Daily Bread Community Outreach Center. 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 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 AFRICAN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds People of Progression Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Initiatives of Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds Northeast Wisconsin Hmong Profes ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER FOR IMMIGRANTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Hmong American Friendship Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK & BROWN WOMYN POWER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Racine Literacy Council Inc ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC ADULT LITERACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · Hunger Task Force Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc
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 Literacy 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.
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.