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Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus
The knights of columbus supports charitable and religious programs through the work of its members and their volunteer efforts.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of WISCONSIN STATE COUNCIL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS’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.
The 23 grants below total $251,356 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,201,822 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $950,466 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WISCONSIN SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $35,319 |
| WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,503 |
| HEADWATERS CHRISTIAN YOUTH INC | $16,247 |
| VARC INC | $15,618 |
| DIOCESE OF LA CROSSE | $11,614 |
| DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY | $11,435 |
| THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC | $10,564 |
| WISCONSIN BADGER CAMP | $10,307 |
| OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN CATHOLIC CONFERENCE | $10,000 |
| DIOCESE OF MADISON | $9,716 |
| DIOCESE OF SUPERIOR | $8,884 |
| ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN | $8,533 |
| EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN | $7,548 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE | $7,485 |
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 (FY17–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $277k · revenue +24%- AIASPIRO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +22%
- VAVERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- BCBADGER COLUMBIANone grant, 2024 · $50k
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF MADISONFOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $17k
- DODiocese of Madisonone grant, 2021 · $14k
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.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To develop the skills of individuals with abilities by providing opportunities for suitable, sustainable employment that result in greater independence. Individuals with abilities to be engaged in valuable work, integrated into their…
To assist people with disabilities in achieving their personal goals for independence.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.
Options for Individuals Inc. provides services and educational classes that create a variety of opportunities for individuals with physical and or intellectual disabilities to fullfill their roles as valued members of the community
To provide training and independent living skills to individuals with development disabilities so they may become as self-reliant as possible and lead more meaningful lives in the community.
To provide a meaningful work experience and quality of life for the benefit of adults with developmental disabilities
Provides work activity for the mentally and physically disabled.
We empower adults with disabilities to lead fulfilling lives. We are committed to creating a community where all people are valued and accepted.
Advance the cause of disability inclusion by creating awareness, advising corporations and sharing proven strategies for including people with disabilities in the workplace, supply chain, and marketplace. Expand opportunitiesby helping…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knights of Columbus Council 3955. 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 70 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN BADGER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRO INC ↗
- Who funds VERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HODAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS CHRISTIAN YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAL INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD COUNTY OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SHORE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST OPPORTUNITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK RIVER INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAUKEE ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 3955 ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVORS ADULT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds ESTO VIR INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION 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: Inclusa Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wispact Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities 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 State Council Knights of Columbus 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.
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