· Public charity
Wisconsin Tavern League Foundation Inc
To provide financial support for thousands of wisconsin charities, as well as promote and administer the saferide program.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $333,952 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $446,912 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,960 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 $10k9 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY21–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of those 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- TLTAVERN LEAGUE OF WISCONSIN INC3× · 2018–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +25% · 42% of their budget
- BCBROWN COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $189k · revenue +54% · 78% of their budget
- KCKenosha County Tavern League Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +96% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- MCMANITOWOC COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- RVRAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +196%
- LCLINCOLN COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Provide safe rides to bar patrons
Designated driver program
To provide free transportation through a safe ride program to any potentially alcohol-impaired individuals for the protection of said individuals and the general public, and to educate the public on the dangers of alcohol-impaired driving.
Provide members with assistance in promotion of trade activities, as well as preserve and enhance relations between the public and the hospitality industry.
Training beginning motorcylist driving
Supporting craft breweries
The organization provides rides to bars, between bars and towns, and home at the end of the night for a reasonable price.
Promote safe motorcycle riding
To provide taxi service for the elderly and disabled adults.
The Racine Firefighters Association is a part of the Racine Volunteer Fire Department.
Reduce injuriesnd fatalities associated with traffic crashes in wright county, minnesota through safety education and prevention.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneida County Tavern League Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ram Veterans Foundation Inc. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
11 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. 11 of the 39 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 TAVERN LEAGUE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE RIDE HOME PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Oshkosh Tavern League Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ONEIDA COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kenosha County Tavern League Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY TAVERN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Madison-Dane County Tavern League Saferider Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES LTD ↗
- Who funds RAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ozaukee County Hospitality Association ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 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.
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.