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WISCONSIN TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC
To advance the charitable, scientific, literary or educational interests of wisconsin's tavern industry.
$447k
Granted FY2025
22
Grants
1
Communities
$38k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Community Improvement$1.4MHuman Services$164kPublic Safety & Disaster$132kPhilanthropy$10kOther$833k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
oversee sidesaferide donationsdonations directedcabpatronssafefree taxi
2022
oversee sidesaferide donationsdonations directedsafecabpatronsfree taxi
2023
oversee sidesaferide donationsdonations directedcabpatronsfree taxisafe
2025
oversee sidesaferide donationsdonations directedpatronsfree taxicabsafe
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 22 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $274k
$13,725
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- COLUMBIA COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE INC$38,342
- LACROSSE COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$32,091
- OSHKOSH CITY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$29,167
- BROWN COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE INC$27,027
- MANITOWOC COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$26,993
- SAUK COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$19,595
- WOOD COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$19,007
- KENOSHA COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$15,504
- ONEIDA COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$15,318
- CHIPPEWA COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$14,984
- MILWAUKEE COUNTY HOSPITALITY TAVERN$13,725
- OUTGAMIE COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$11,585
- FOND DU LAC COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE$10,516
- TAVERN LEAGUE OF WAUPACA COUNTY$8,052
- MARINETTE COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC$7,854
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 91% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 23 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
23
8
Total granted
$2.4M
$87k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
-17%
+324%
Still filing today
30%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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
- TLTAVERN LEAGUE OF WISCONSIN INC3× · 2018–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +25% · 42% of their budget
- BCBROWN COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $155k · revenue +33% · 78% of their budget
- LCLACROSSE COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $149k · revenue -83% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
- MCMANITOWOC COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- COCHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +56%
- RVRAM VETERAN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +324%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Bar Buddies Ltd
Provide safe rides to bar patrons
Health
2
Cascade County Tavern Association
Provide members with assistance in promotion of trade activities, as well as preserve and enhance relations between the public and the hospitality industry.
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3
Motorcycle Dial a Ride Inc
Promote safe motorcycle riding
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4
Abate of Wisconsin Safe Rider Inc
Training beginning motorcylist driving
Arts & Culture
5
Safe Communities of Wright County
Reduce injuriesnd fatalities associated with traffic crashes in wright county, minnesota through safety education and prevention.
Public Safety & Disaster
6
Southern Grant Road Crew Inc
The organization provides rides to bars, between bars and towns, and home at the end of the night for a reasonable price.
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7
The Bottleshare Inc
Supporting craft breweries
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8
New Berlin Senior Taxi Inc
Subsidized taxi service - seniors and the handicapped residing in new berlin, wi
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9
Illinois Truck Enforcement Association Ltd
Public safety education.
Public Safety & Disaster
10
Lost Tavern Brewing
Health
11
Veterans Transportation Foundation
To non emerg med transportation
Public Benefit
12
Section Sober Inc
To provide an alcohol free space where foot- ball fans can gather together in fellow- ship before and during home Green Bay Pakers games.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oshkosh Tavern League Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children of Restaurant Employees. 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 15 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
9%
1,005/11,358
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.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$1,392,904Other$833,077Human Services$163,872Public Safety & Disaster$132,139Philanthropy$10,000
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 TAVERN LEAGUE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LACROSSE COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH CITY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONEIDA COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON DANE TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES ↗
- Who funds RAM VETERAN FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation WISCONSIN TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LACROSSE COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 392027825 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LACROSSE COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Wisconsin Tavern League Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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