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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 Co Eaton Vance Trust Company, 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of WISCONSIN RURAL OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ATTENTION MARCY HEIM’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST | $126,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS | $10,000 |
| AABP | $10,000 |
| UNIVERISTY OF WISCONSIN MADISON SCHOOL OF NURSING | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE | $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 |
| UNIVERISTY OF WISCONSIN MADISON VET SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF NURSING | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 48% of Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 72% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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
EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +10%- DFDAIRY'S FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +661%
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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Edgewood University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 82 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.
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 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 ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · 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 Rural Opportunities Foundation Attention Marcy Heim 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.