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Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County Inc

The women & girls fund of waukesha county fosters the potential of women and girls through grant making and lasting investments that strengthen our community.

$246k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$101kHealth$82kHuman Services$70kYouth Development$43kHousing & Shelter$37kCrime & Legal$30kEducation$26kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$201k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $233,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $245,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,750 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.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAMI SOUTHEAST WI$20,000
COMMUNITY SMILES DENTAL$20,000
SHARP LITERACY$20,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF WAUKESHA COUNTY$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWA$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA CO$20,000
WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK$20,000
EASTERSEALS SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN$15,000
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC$15,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN$13,000
LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC$10,000
THE WOMEN'S CENTER$10,000
IMPACT INC$10,000
WAUKESHA FREE CLINIC$10,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHEASTERN WI$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHARP LITERACY: $20k → 17%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 5%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK WAUK CO: $10k → 5%FAMILY SERVICES OF WAUKESHA COUNTY: $20k → 5%FAMILY SERVICES OF WAUKESHA COUNTY: $10k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$217k · 7 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$217k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • NAMI SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $37k · revenue +18%
  • WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +25%
  • WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SW
    SE WI EMERGENCY SUPPORT GROUP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -6%
  • HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +23%
  • LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +21%

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
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
2
Wisconsin Family Ties Inc

Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…

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3
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
4
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
5
Child Advocacy Centers of Wisconsin

Establish and maintain child advocacy centers and teams in wisconsin.

Human Services
6
Wisconsin Rapids Family Center Inc

Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.

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7
Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc

Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.

Education
8
Central Wisconsin Community Action Council Inc

The mission of central wisconsin community action council, inc. (cwcac) is to provide opportunities for services which help low-income individuals and families within our service area achieve self-sufficiency and independence.

Human Services
9
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.

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10
Variety - the Children's Charity of Wisconsin Inc

Enriching the lives of children with physical or developmental special needs and their families.

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11
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
12
Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc

Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy 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 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%19%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr20%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr20%25%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
11%
939/8,271

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
17/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NAMI SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC — $37,000 · OtherNAMI SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INCWELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC — $35,000 · OtherWELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INCEaster Seals Southeast Wisconsin Inc — $30,000 · OtherEaster Seals Southeast Wisconsin IncHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $20,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INCLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC — $12,000 · OtherARCH — $11,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE — $10,000 · OtherWAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC — $10,000 · OtherAURORA HEALTH CARE INC — $10,000 · OtherPARENTS PLACE INC — $10,000 · OtherWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · OtherLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · OtherSE WI EMERGENCY SUPPORT GROUP INC — $20,000 · OtherSE WI EMERGENCY SUPPORT GROUP INC+2 more — $11,900 · OtherWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $101,411 · PhilanthropyWAUKESHA COUNTY CO…WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $35,000 · HealthWAUKESHA COUNTY…LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC — $30,000 · HealthLAKE AREA FREE …IMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthIMPACT ALCOHOL …GOOD FRIEND INC — $7,000 · HealthGOOD FRIEND INCFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVI…SHARP LITERACY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERA…THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S …BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES — $17,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTEAM UP WITH FAMILIES INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$246,900Philanthropy$101,411Health$82,000Human Services$70,000Youth Development$43,000Housing & Shelter$37,000Crime & Legal$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $101,411 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC — $37,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEaster Seals Southeast Wisconsin Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSE WI EMERGENCY SUPPORT GROUP INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES — $17,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTEAM UP WITH FAMILIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPARENTS PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD FRIEND INC — $7,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAD LAKE INC — $5,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Waukesha County Commu…United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Waukesha Rotary Club …Evan & Marion Helfaer…STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Otto Bremer TrustGe Aerospace Foundati…Youth Foundation IncBaird Foundation Inc
Waukesha County Community FoundationWI51.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waukesha County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Otto Bremer Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation 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 Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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: 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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