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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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST | $126,000 |
| AABP | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE | $8,000 |
| UNIVERISTY OF WISCONSIN MADISON SCHOOL OF NURSING | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONISN MADISON - CALS | $6,000 |
| PROFESSIONAL DAIRY PRODUCERS FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| RURAL SUMMER SCIENCE CAMP - WARF | $5,000 |
| EDGEWOOD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONISN MADISON - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT | $4,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF NURSING | $4,000 |
| UNIVERISTY OF WISCONSIN MADISON VET SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 48% of Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 72%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +10%- DFDAIRY'S FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue ×17
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- WTWISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYS BOARDone grant, 2022 · $17k
- WIWROF INC BOARD SCHOLARS FUNDone grant, 2023 · $17k
- WRWISCONSIN RURAL OPPORTUNITIES INCone grant, 2021 · $16k · 100% of their budget
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.
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.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
To be a proactive leader in helping shape and refine the vision of excellence of the university of wisconsin - oshkosh through: raising the awareness of the need for private support for educational priorities; building relationships to…
To support the university school of milwaukee in the fulfillment of its educational purposes.
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
To promote the welfare of the university of wisconsin stevens point at wausau and provide funds in the form of student scholarships, faculty grants and support to the university.
The university of iowa research foundation's (uirf) mission is to: advance, develop, increase and extend the progress of science and useful arts through encouraging and assisting investigation, research and education at the state…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The uw-whitewater foundation encourages, enables and celebrates philanthropy with those who care about the university and who provide a perpetual source of support for the university's students, faculty and programs. we do this through…
To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 82 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds DAIRY'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RURAL OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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