· Public charity
Wispact Inc
We enhance the well-being of people of all ages with disabilities across wisconsin through the management of special needs trusts by promoting more choice and opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 76 grants below total $931,312 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $986,865 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,553 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $742k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDEPENDENCE FIRST | $47,965 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC | $30,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC | $30,000 |
| MARCUS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE INC | $25,232 |
| HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| BLOOM 360 LEARNING CENTER | $20,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY YMCA | $20,000 |
| MOVIN' OUT | $20,000 |
| RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER | $20,000 |
| WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| THE ABILITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR WESTERN WISCONSIN INC | $19,805 |
| INCONTROL WI | $19,760 |
| OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $14,250 |
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 (FY21–24, $575k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k 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 INC4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +19%
BLOOM360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +70%
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CCCREATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING SERVICES INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1%
- AIART INTERSECTION MKE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +127%
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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 enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
Dedicated to improving the lives of all who are impacted by autism spectrum disorders by providing information, resources, and support, while raising awareness and acceptance in our community.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
The mission of aptiv, incorporated is to provide a spectrum of innovative support for individuals with disabilities so they may live independent lives.
Independent living services for persons with disabilities.
A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…
To assist people with disabilities in achieving their personal goals for independence.
Independent living service to disabled clients including information and referral, advocacy, peer counseling, il skills training, housing, employment, ramp installation, emergency rent, utilities and food.
Autism specific programs - ages 18 and over - providing daily living skills & pre-vocational training utilizing academics and various modes to teach communication skills.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trinity Lutheran Church - Historical Society. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 118 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 BLOOM360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds INCONTROL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED TRAINING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EX FABULA INC ↗
- Who funds People First Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds Natures Edge Therapy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds MOVIN OUT INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Journey 21 Inc ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds Arts for All Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF RACINE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE LOTUS FARM & RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AND CHILDREN IN ACTION ↗
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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Anon Charitable Trust
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 Wispact 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.