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Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation Inc

To advance the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting medical education and health initiatives.

$311k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
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.

Health$233kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHuman Services$6k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $12,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $311,249 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $299,249 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.
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISCONSIN MEDICAL SOCIETY INC$12,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HAUS OF PEACE: $6k → 8%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$210k · 6 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +239% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$210k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+239%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WL
    WISCONSIN LITERACY INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +453%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +128%
  • MA
    MADISON AREA CARE FOR THE HOMELESS (MACH) ONEHEALTH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +265%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -41%
  • AI
    ASPIRUS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +655%
  • DC
    DUNN COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc

The wisconsin hospital association, inc.'s (wha) mission is advocating for the ability of its members to provide high quality health care services to wisconsin communities.the association fulfills this mission through the following values:…

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2
Ascension Wisconsin Pharmacy Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
3
Wisconsin Health Information Organization Inc

The wisconsin health information organization maintains a centralized health care data repository to provide data and information on the quality, safety, cost, and equity of health care to all health care stakeholders for improvement,…

Health
4
Aspirus Wausau Hospital Inc

We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.

Health
5
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

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6
Center for Healthcare Careers of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…

Health
7
Aspirus Medford Hospital & Clinics Inc

We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.

Health
8
Children's Medical Group Inc

To provide quality, accessible primary health care services to all children in our community, advocate for the well-being of all children, educate children, families, health care professionals and our community regarding the health of…

Health
9
Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health
10
Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health
11
Ascension Medical Group-Southeast Wisconsin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
12
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Medical Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Haus of Peace. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WISCONSIN MEDICAL SOCIETY INC: $123,132 · OtherWISCONSIN MEDICAL SOCIETY INCWISCONSIN LITERACY INC: $20,000 · OtherWISCONSIN LITERACY INCDUNN COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING: $6,000 · OtherWAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC: $5,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUN…MADISON AREA CARE FOR THE HOMELESS (MACH) ONEHEALTH INC: $18,476 · HealthMADISON AREA CARE FOR THE HOMELESS (M…VIVENT HEALTH INC: $17,030 · HealthVIVENT HEALTH INCAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE INC: $11,050 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICIN…COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC: $10,000 · HealthCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S INCASPIRUS INC: $6,000 · HealthASPIRUS INCNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $5,550 · Recreation & SportsHaus of Peace: $5,500 · Human Services
Other$154,632Health$82,556Recreation & Sports$5,550Human Services$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISCONSIN MEDICAL SOCIETY INC: $123,132 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetWISCONSIN LITERACY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC: $17,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE INC: $11,050 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRUS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $5,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaus of Peace: $5,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 12 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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