· Public charity
Women's Fund of Greater la Crosse Inc
Women's fund of greater la crosse exists to impact all women and girls in our community by supporting organizations with the collective power of philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $106,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $111,440 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,040 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 $10k6 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA CROSSE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $26,500 |
| VARIOUS | $22,900 |
| NEW HORIZONS SHELTER & OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| HOPE RESTORES | $9,000 |
| WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $8,500 |
| WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITATIVE | $7,500 |
| RISING ATHLETES | $7,500 |
| YWCA | $7,500 |
| CIA SIAB INC | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- NHNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC5× · 2018–2024 · $47k · revenue +4%
- YLYWCA LA CROSSE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +49%
- WTWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +684%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
1000 Generations Incone grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -16%- TPTHE PARENTING PLACE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +19%
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.
Alongside our parnters, we keep families experiencing homelessness together by offering housing and compassionate support as they find work to find their way back home.
To help homeless women and families achieve sufficiency.
The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.
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.
Empowering women and children on their path out of homelessness through hospitality, housing, and hope.
To empower families with children to overcome homelessness and housing insecurity through a holistic approach, community involvement, and sustainable solutions.
Shelter and counseling for abused women and their children
Families in crisis, inc. houses, supports and empowers individuals affected by family violence, sexual assault, and homelessness.
Housing programs
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
To provide safe shelter, advocacy, counseling, referrals and support to all victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
The mission of bridge communities is to transition homeless families to self-sufficiency by working with partners to provide mentoring, housing, and supportive services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Parenting Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of the Great Rivers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 NEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESTORES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 Generations Inc ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIA SIAB INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING PLACE INC ↗
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: La Crosse Community Foundation · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Great Rivers United Way Inc · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Alm Charities Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 of Greater la Crosse 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.