How much does Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus give?

Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus reported 23 itemized grants totaling $251,356, out of $1,201,822 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Recreation & Sports (23%), Health (14%).

Who are Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Special Olympics Wisconsin Inc ($277k), Wisconsin Badger Camp Inc ($168k), Diocese of la Crosse ($118k).

Does Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inclusa Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Wispact Inc.

Where is Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus based?

Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus is based in WI.

Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus

Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

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 2025.

Religion$558kRecreation & Sports$481kHealth$286kEmployment$273kEducation$194kHuman Services$181kYouth Development$83kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 23 grants below total $251,356, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,201,822 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $950,466 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.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $90k
$10k–50k10 grants · $162k

$8,884

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 35 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+21%

Still filing today

71%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentRecreation & SportsReligionOther

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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $277k · revenue +24%
AI
ASPIRO INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +22%
VA
VERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +40%

Funded once

BC
BADGER COLUMBIAN
one grant, 2024 · $50k
CD
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF MADISONFOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $17k
DO
Diocese of Madison
one grant, 2021 · $14k

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.

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services

Innovative Services Inc

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.

Human Services

Occupational Development Center Inc

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…

Employment

Highline Corporation

To assist people with disabilities in achieving their personal goals for independence.

Human Services

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Abilities At Work

To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.

Employment

Options for Individuals Inc

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

Human Services

Diversified Services Inc

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.

Employment

Riverview Industries Inc

To provide a meaningful work experience and quality of life for the benefit of adults with developmental disabilities

Employment

Crossroads Industries Inc

Provides work activity for the mentally and physically disabled.

Employment

Aspire Inc

We empower adults with disabilities to lead fulfilling lives. We are committed to creating a community where all people are valued and accepted.

Employment

Disability in Wisconsin Inc

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Wisconsin Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/44

Grantees still filing

30/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,242,278Recreation & Sports$282,032Education$223,092Human Services$152,135Health$114,846Employment$92,731Religion$11,050

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.

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.

Inclusa Foundation IncWI30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 State Council Knights of Columbus funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wisconsin State Council Knights of Columbus. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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