Wisconsin · Private foundation
Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $219k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Us Charitable Gift Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $126,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $93k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $141k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $116k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $104k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $125k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $86k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $90k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $83k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edgewood University Inc | $54,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Dairy's Foundation Inc | $43,000 | 7 | 3% |
| University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Wisconsin FFA Foundation Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 100% |
| University of Wisconsin | $12,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Uwm Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Moraine Park Technical College | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edgewood University Inc | $54,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Dairy's Foundation Inc | $43,000 | 7 | 3% |
| University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Wisconsin FFA Foundation Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $17,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 100% |
| University of Wisconsin | $12,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Uwm Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Moraine Park Technical College | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Technical College | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($719k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim with peer funders
About Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim
- How much does Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim give?
- Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim reported 25 grants totaling $219,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Philanthropy (42%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
- Who are Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Edgewood University Inc ($55k), Dairy's Foundation Inc ($43k), University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc ($25k).
- Does Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim based?
- Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim is based in WI.
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