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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.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$115kHuman Services$84kEducation$26kCommunity Improvement$18kHousing & Shelter$10kRecreation & Sports$8kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $106,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $111,440 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,040 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RISING ATHLETES$7,500
WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITATIVE$7,500
YWCA$7,500
CIA SIAB INC$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY: $10k → 14%YWCA: $9k → 12%YWCA: $8k → 12%YWCA: $7k → 12%YWCA: $7k → 12%YWCA: $6k → 12%CIA SIAB INC: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$286k · 7 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$286k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    NEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $47k · revenue +4%
  • YL
    YWCA LA CROSSE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +49%
  • WT
    WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +684%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • 1000 Generations Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -16%
  • TP
    THE PARENTING PLACE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Promise of Western New York

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Waycross Area Shelter for Abused Persons Inc

Shelter and counseling for abused women and their children

Crime & Legal
3
Opportunity Place Inc

To help homeless women and families achieve sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
4
Family Promise of Greater Wichita

To empower families with children to overcome homelessness and housing insecurity through a holistic approach, community involvement, and sustainable solutions.

Human Services
5
Families in Crisis

Families in crisis, inc. houses, supports and empowers individuals affected by family violence, sexual assault, and homelessness.

Human Services
6
Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter

Women's and children's crisis shelter is committed to providing safety, shelter and hope to victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
7
Pathways Inc

Empowering women and children on their path out of homelessness through hospitality, housing, and hope.

Human Services
8
House of Hope Midwest

The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.

Human Services
9
Family Crisis Shelter Inc

To provide safe shelter, advocacy, counseling, referrals and support to all victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Civil Rights
10
Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc

Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

Housing & Shelter
11
Womens Aid in Crisis Inc

Domestic violence shelter provides 24 hour a day crisis intervention and advocacy along with emergency food, clothing, and shelter to those in situations related to domestic violence and sexual assault.

Human Services
12
Bridge Communities Inc

The mission of bridge communities is to transition homeless families to self-sufficiency by working with partners to provide mentoring, housing, and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Parenting Place Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA CROSSE COUNTY AGING UNIT: $67,750 · OtherLA CROSSE COUNTY AGING UNITVARIOUS: $64,850 · OtherVARIOUSHOPE RESTORES CORPORATION: $28,082 · OtherHOPE RESTORES CORPORATIONWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $17,500 · OtherWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATIONRISING ATHLETES INC: $7,500 · OtherYWCA LA CROSSE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesYWCA LA CROSSE IN…FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF…CIA SIAB INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCIA SIAB INCNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC: $47,000 · HealthNEW HORIZONS SHE…WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,910 · Education1000 Generations Inc: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,400 · PhilanthropyTHE PARENTING PLACE INC: $5,400 · Crime & Legal
Other$185,682Human Services$52,000Health$47,000Education$25,910Youth Development$9,000Philanthropy$7,400Crime & Legal$5,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW HORIZONS SHELTER AND OUTREACH CENTERS INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYWCA LA CROSSE INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE RESTORES CORPORATION: $28,082 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,910 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budget1000 Generations Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIA SIAB INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PARENTING PLACE INC: $5,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

La Crosse Community F…Gundersen Lutheran Ad…Otto Bremer TrustMayo Clinic Group Ret…Great Rivers United W…Cleary-Kumm Foundatio…Alm Charities IncXcel Energy FoundationThe US Charitable Gif…Baird Foundation IncFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
La Crosse Community FoundationWI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Women's Fund of Greater la Crosse Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Fund of Greater la Crosse Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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