· Public charity
Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin Inc
Workforce development board of south central wisconsin, inc.'s mission is to build public and private partnerships that support innovation and excellence in workforce development.in furtherance of its mission the organization dedicates time, talent and financial resources to: promoting economic opportunities for the workforce; targeting…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $2,893,492 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,784,610 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $891,118 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $462k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ASSOCIATION INC | $798,741 |
| DANE COUNTY SCHOOL CONSORTIUM | $677,122 |
| MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $582,457 |
| JOHNSON CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $312,631 |
| OPPORTUNITIES INC OF JEFFERSON COUNTY | $131,953 |
| FORWARD CAREERS | $92,497 |
| SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC | $84,371 |
| MORAINE PARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $76,950 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HOSPITALS AND CLINICS | $76,193 |
| OPERATION FRESH START INC | $35,531 |
| CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC | $12,896 |
| EMPLOYE MILWAUKEE INC | $12,150 |
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 (FY18–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- ETEMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ASSOCIATION OF DANE COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +55% · 79% of their budget
- OFOPERATION FRESH START INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +64%
- OIOPPORTUNITIES INC OF JEFFERSON COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- WUWatertown Unified School Districtone grant, 2017 · $108k
- WWWISCONSIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue +504%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $46k · revenue +146%
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.
The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.
Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.
Workforce development planning, policy guidance, and oversight of workforce development programs in the west central wisconsin workforce development area
Working collaboratively in our communities to create and sustain a fully engaged, talented workforce for tomorrow, and beyond.
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Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
Job training and workforce development
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employ Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wisconsin Workforce Development Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ASSOCIATION OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FORWARD CAREERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOY MILWAUKEE 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: United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Widen Family Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin 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.