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Women's Fund for the Fox Valley Region Inc

To promote the advancement of women and girls in our community - reflecting our vision of a community of equality where power and opportunity are not limited by gender.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$431kHealth$140kHuman Services$108kEmployment$91kFood & Nutrition$79kYouth Development$54kHousing & Shelter$41kPhilanthropy$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $210,982 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $230,394 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,412 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 $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE - APPLETON$60,248
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN - FOX VALLEY$48,935
GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES$15,655
SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN - NORTHEAST WISCONSIN CHAPTER$15,100
THEDACARE FAMILY OF FOUNDATIONS$15,000
WISCONSIN WOMENS BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION$12,000
WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE$10,000
EMPOWERED TUTORING$7,500
WORLD RELIEF FOX VALLEY$7,500
COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET$7,022
HEADSUP FOX CITIES$7,000
YOUTH GO$5,022
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 (FY17–24, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $7k → 6%CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES: $8k → 11%WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%HEADSUP FOX CITIES: $7k → 6%LEAVEN: $5k → 6%FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $13k → 7%YOUTH GO: $5k → 11%CAP SERVICES: $13k → 7%CAP SERVICES: $12k → 7%SOAR FOX CITIES INC: $10k → 7%CAP SERVICES: $10k → 7%SOAR FOX CITIES INC: $10k → 7%FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL: $10k → 7%SOAR FOX CITIES: $10k → 7%FOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $10k → 7%CAP SERVICES: $10k → 7%PREVENT SUICIDE FOX CITIES INC: $6k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY: $6k → 7%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$864k · 14 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$864k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+27%

Still filing today

93%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEmploymentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • FV
    FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $284k · revenue +28%
  • TF
    ThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +68%
  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $79k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • BI
    BEAMING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • GH
    GOLDEN HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -15%
  • TM
    Thrivent Member Network - Rocky Mountain
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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
Sage Advocacy Center

Educate, advocate, and empower to end violence.

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2
The Women's Center Inc

To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.

Human Services
3
Safe Harbor Inc

Provide shelter and assistance to victims of domestic violence in lake county and the flathead indian reservation.

Human Services
4
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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5
Women and Children's Horizons Inc

The mission of women and children's horizons, inc. is to provide support, shelter, education, training, and healing services to victims of sexual and domestic abuse, their families, and the community.

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
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
8
Crisis Intervention & Advocacy Center

Crisis intervention & advocacy center is an advocacy program designed to respond to victims of domestic abuse, sexual assualt, stalking, dating violence, and homelessness in adair, adams, clarke, dallas, decatur, guthrie, madison,…

Human Services
9
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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10
Help of Door County Inc

The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.

Health
11
House of Hope Green Bay Inc

House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…

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12
Cots Inc

"ending homelessness in the fox valley." by providing temporary transitional shelter and basic needs for homeless men, women, young adults and single mother families in outagamie, winnebago and calumet counties. our goal is to respectfully…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Connections Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waking Women Healing Institute. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr12%15%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr19%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr12%14%20–35yr14%67%35–55yr19%7%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
7%
146/2,009

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

29 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. 29 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $283,644 · OtherFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $87,142 · OtherFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGETHE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED — $32,600 · OtherTHE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATEDWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $19,000 · OtherEMPOWERED TUTORING INC — $17,500 · Other+8 more — $74,926 · Other+8 moreCAP SERVICES INC — $44,000 · Human ServicesCAP SERVICES INCFOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesFOX VALLEY LITERACY …SOAR FOX CITIES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSOAR FOX CITIES INCLEAVEN INC — $15,880 · Human ServicesLEAVEN INCGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HOUSE INCWAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Human ServicesWAKING WOMEN HEALING…CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET — $7,022 · Human ServicesHEADSUP FOX CITIES CORP — $7,000 · Human Services+3 more — $17,122 · Human Services+3 moreThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc — $94,802 · PhilanthropyThedaCare …HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC — $79,500 · EmploymentFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $78,698 · Food & NutritionGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC — $34,155 · Youth Development1000 Generations Inc — $15,100 · Youth DevelopmentBEAMING INC — $15,300 · HealthEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $7,500 · Health
Other$514,812Human Services$186,524Philanthropy$94,802Employment$79,500Food & Nutrition$78,698Youth Development$49,255Health$22,800

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 budgetFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $283,644 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc — $94,802 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC — $79,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $78,698 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAP SERVICES INC — $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC — $34,155 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED — $32,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOX VALLEY LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $32,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetSOAR FOX CITIES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERED TUTORING INC — $17,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetLEAVEN INC — $15,880 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBEAMING INC — $15,300 over 1y, 4.5% of budget1000 Generations Inc — $15,100 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPILLARS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS CENTER - FOX CITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET — $7,022 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEADSUP FOX CITIES CORP — $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOMELESS CONNECTIONS INC — $6,426 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC — $6,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST 5 FOX VALLEY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH GO INC — $5,022 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Community Foundation …J J Keller Foundation…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Green Bay Packers Fou…United Way Fox Cities…Oshkosh Area Communit…The Clarence Wallace …Otto Bremer TrustGreater Green Bay Com…Basic Needs Giving Pa…Theda and Tamblin Cla…The Robert and Susan …
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI59.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Robert and Susan Brown Family 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's Fund for the Fox Valley Region 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 32 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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