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Woodpile Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
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 FY20222024.

Housing & Shelter$25kAnimals$9kReligion$4kArts & Culture$3kPhilanthropy$500Recreation & Sports$250
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$369k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOTO FOUNDATION$5,000
WEGA ARTS$2,000
VICTORY CHURCH$1,200
OUR PACK ANIMAL RESCUE$500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC$500
WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$200
ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$80
WAUPACA COMMUNITY ARTS BOARD INC$35
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC: $500 → 7%TOTO FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%TOTO FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%TOTO FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%WEGA ARTS: $2k → 11%FOUNDATIONS FOR LIVING: $25k → 11%VICTORY CHURCH: $3k → 11%WAUPACA FIELD STATION: $2k → 11%VICTORY CHURCH: $1k → 11%CHAIN O' LAKES WATER SKI CLUB INC: $250 → 11%WAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200 → 11%CAMP CLEGHORN CHAPEL CORPORATION: $100 → 11%ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $80 → 11%ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $70 → 11%WAUPACA COMMUNITY ARTS BOARD INC: $35 → 11%OUR PACK ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 → 11%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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10k · 3 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$10k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-53%
-5%

Still filing today

33%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Arts & CultureAnimalsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TF
    TOTO FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue -53%
  • VC
    VICTORY CHURCH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k
  • SM
    ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATIONS FOR LIVING INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $350

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
Humane Society of Waupaca County Inc

The Humane Society of Waupaca County (HSWC) provides the following services for the citizens of Waupaca County and the surrounding area. HSWC provides shelter, veterinary care, spaying and neutering and adoption services for homeless pets.

Animals
2
Waupaca Area Chamber Foundation Inc

boost community involvement for individuals and businesses.

Human Services
3
Waupaca Public Library Foundation Inc

The Development of Programs to: Focus public attention on library services, facilities and need in the Waupaca area; To promote growth of the Library by developing and administering an active gift and memorial program for the Library.

Education
4
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Waupaca Area Food Pantry Inc

To supply food to the under privileged.

Food & Nutrition
6
The Wa Wui Ltd

Provide civic facility for the greater tomahawk wi community

7
Waupaca County Natural Resources Foundation Inc

Acquire, protect and enhance lands

Recreation & Sports
8
Poor Farm Exhibitions and Press Incorporated

The Poor Farm Exhibitions And Press Incorporated facilitates and presents artist's projects and year-long exhibitions at the former Waupaca County Poor Farm built in 1876 in Little Wolf, WI.

Arts & Culture
9
Wabeno Area Players
Arts & Culture
10
Whitetails Unlimited Washington Cou Chapter 9362

To support safety & disabled hunter programs in washington cty, wisconsin

11
Center for the Visual Arts

Center for the visual arts (cva) in downtown wausau enhances the vitality and vibrancy of the community, offering art classes, gallery space for exhibits, and community programs. not for profit art centers like the cva, provide exhibit…

Arts & Culture
12
Whitewater Valley Railroad Association Inc

The whitewater valley railroad is a heritage railroad dedicated to the preservation and presentation of branch line railroading.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chain O' Lakes Water Ski Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundations for Living 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATIONS FOR LIVING INC — $25,090 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATIONS FOR LIVING INCTOTO FOUNDATION INC — $6,350 · AnimalsTOTO FOUNDATION IN…OUR PACK ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $500 · AnimalsOUR PACK ANIMAL RE…VICTORY CHURCH — $3,900 · OtherVICTORY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $1,835 · OtherIndividual grant …Individual grant recipient — $350 · OtherIndividual grant …+2 more — $250 · OtherWEYAUWEGA ARTS ORGANIZATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureWAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $200 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $35 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $500 · PhilanthropyCHAIN O' LAKES WATER SKI CLUB INC — $250 · Youth Development
Housing & Shelter$25,090Animals$6,850Other$6,335Arts & Culture$2,235Philanthropy$500Youth Development$250

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 budgetFOUNDATIONS FOR LIVING INC — $25,090 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTOTO FOUNDATION INC — $6,350 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetWEYAUWEGA ARTS ORGANIZATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOUR PACK ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAIN O' LAKES WATER SKI CLUB INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAUPACA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAUPACA COMMUNITY ARTS BOARD INC — $35 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.

Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Woodpile Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Woodpile Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Woodpile Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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