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Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$116k
Granted FY2023
25
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.

Recreation & Sports$114kHealth$33kHousing & Shelter$30kPhilanthropy$29kReligion$19kEducation$17kArts & Culture$16kCommunity Improvement$16kOther$0
02FY2023 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k24 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$300
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF STEVENS POINT$100,000
SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION$3,750
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD AND ADAMS$2,650
ACACIA FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCON$2,500
CAMP LUWISOMO$1,200
SHERMALOT SKI SHOW TEAM$525
ST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH$500
NECEDAH AREA SCHOOL DISTR$500
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$500
SOUTH WOOD COUNTY RECREATION CENTER$500
WISCONSIN RAPIDS COMMUNITY THEATRE$450
PLOVER-WHITING YOUTH ATHLETICS INC$400
AMERICAN LEGION POST 9$300
CENTRAL WI GIFT OF LIFE$250
SALVATION ARMY$250
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 (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 2% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%PORTAGE COUNTY BUSINESS COUNCIL FOU: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $1k → 10%SAMOSET COUNCIL BSA: $8k → 11%WISCONSIN VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL: $5k → 13%CAMP LUWISOMO: $1k → 15%SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SAMOSET COUNCIL BSA: $5k → 11%CAMP LUWISOMO: $1k → 15%SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SAMOSET COUNCIL BSA: $3k → 11%SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUN: $3k → 11%SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUN: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE C: $1k → 11%ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE C: $1k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $1k → 11%OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $10k → 11%ASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 11%CITY OF STEVENS POINT: $100k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD AND ADAMS: $3k → 11%SAINT MICHAELS FOUNDATION OF STEVEN: $2k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD AND ADAMS: $3k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $2k → 10%INCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 11%STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA: $1k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD AND ADAMS: $2k → 11%STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA: $1k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD AND ADAMS: $2k → 11%STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA: $1k → 10%UNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD AND ADAMS: $2k → 11%SAINT MICHAELS FOUNDATION OF STEVEN: $1k → 10%ASPIRUS RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL & CLINIC: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS: $30k → 11%ASPIRUS CANCER CENTER: $2k → 11%WAUSAU AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SOUTH WOOD COUNTY RECREATION CENTER: $1k → 11%GREATER WAUSAU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5k → 11%UNITED WAY OF INNER WISCONSIN: $1k → 11%WOODSON YMCA INC: $3k → 11%GREATER WAUSAU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3k → 11%CITY OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS: $10k → 11%CENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER I: $8k → 11%ACACIA FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCON: $3k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD TABLE: $1k → 11%ASPIRUS RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$145k · 49 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
39

Total granted

$145k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+5%

Still filing today

39%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • SH
    SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $24k · revenue +44%
  • OD
    OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $11k · revenue +17%
  • IG
    IMPACT100 GREATER WAUSAU INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -86%
  • CW
    CENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +3%
  • WV
    WISCONSIN VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

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
Wausau Central Wisconsin Sports Authority Inc

To promote community awareness through sport activities. the organization also sponsors the badger state games (winter and summer) and other events. these events attract thousands of competitors and visitors from across the state and…

Recreation & Sports
2
Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Inc

To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.

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3
Uwm At Waukesha Foundation Inc

To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus

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4
Waukesha County Community Foundation

Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…

Philanthropy
5
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
6
Wisconsin Progress Inc

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

Civil Rights
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
Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc

To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.

Human Services
9
Wispact Inc

We enhance the well-being of people of all ages with disabilities across wisconsin through the management of special needs trusts by promoting more choice and opportunities.

Human Services
10
Westconsin Credit Union

The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…

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11
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
12
Uw Wausau Campus Foundation Inc

To promote the welfare of the university of wisconsin stevens point at wausau and provide funds in the form of student scholarships, faculty grants and support to the university.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Wausau Prosperity Partnership L Partnership Ltd. 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 41 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr10%6%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr17%28%35–55yr22%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr10%43%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr14%15%20–35yr17%15%35–55yr22%23%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
6%
101/1,567

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

43 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. 43 of the 96 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF STEVENS POINT — $100,000 · OtherCITY OF STEVENS POINTSAMOSET COUNCIL BSA — $15,150 · OtherSAMOSET COUNCIL BSACITY OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS — $10,200 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD AND ADAMS — $10,050 · OtherGREATER WAUSAU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $7,500 · Other+70 more — $75,623 · Other+70 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY …SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $23,500 · HealthSUPERIOR …ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,700 · HealthASPIRUS H…ASPIRUS RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC — $1,500 · HealthASPIRUS R…IMPACT100 GREATER WAUSAU INC — $6,600 · PhilanthropySOUTH WOOD COUNTY RECREATION CENTER INC — $3,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD & ADAMS COUNTIES INC — $2,450 · PhilanthropyINCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,200 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $1,750 · Philanthropy+2 more — $600 · PhilanthropyOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $11,250 · EmploymentCENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN RAPIDS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $2,250 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $100 · Arts & CulturePLOVER-WHITING YOUTH ATHLETICS INC — $1,600 · Recreation & SportsWISCONSIN RAPIDS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,300 · Recreation & SportsWAUSAU CURLING CLUB — $800 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC — $450 · Recreation & SportsWISCONSIN RAPIDS RANGER BASEBALL INC — $200 · Recreation & Sports
Other$218,523Public Benefit$30,000Health$27,700Philanthropy$16,850Employment$11,250Arts & Culture$10,850Recreation & Sports$4,350

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION — $23,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $11,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetIMPACT100 GREATER WAUSAU INC — $6,600 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOODSON YMCA INC — $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH WOOD COUNTY RECREATION CENTER INC — $3,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD & ADAMS COUNTIES INC — $2,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCamp LuWiSoMo Inc — $2,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN RAPIDS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $2,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORTAGE COUNTY BUSINESS COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC — $2,100 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetASPIRUS RIVERVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $1,950 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLOVER-WHITING YOUTH ATHLETICS INC — $1,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRUS RIVERVIEW HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Wood County Humane Society Inc — $1,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN RAPIDS YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,300 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAUSAU CURLING CLUB — $800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHANNAH CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC — $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAPIDS AREA SOCCER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN RAPIDS RANGER BASEBALL INC — $200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP AWESUM INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCELEBRATE PLOVER FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVESPER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HOSPICE MEMORIAL FUND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS LAND TRUST INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAPIDS MAT BACKERS INC — $25 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.

Bell Family Charitabl…Paper City Savings Ch…Incourage Community F…Judd S Alexander Foun…Legacy Foundation of …Community Foundation …Ba & Esther Greenheck…Dwight and Linda Davi…Incrediblebank Founda…Sentry Insurance Foun…Community Foundation …Green Bay Packers Fou…
Bell Family Charitable Foundation IWI43.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Incourage Community Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc · Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Green Bay Packers 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 Woodtrust Charitable 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    14report 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, 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Woodtrust Charitable 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 96 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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