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Wow We Care Charity of Wisconsin Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOLUTIONS RECOVERY | $25,000 |
| FOOD & FARM EXPLORATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $3,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WI | $2,000 |
| PORTIAS PURPOSE | $2,000 |
| CASA OF THE FOX CITIES | $1,500 |
| FOX VALLEY MEMORY PROJECT | $1,500 |
| HEAR IN THE FOX CITIES | $1,000 |
| KAUKAUNA GIRLS BASKETBALL ASSN | $1,000 |
| SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WOOD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE FOX VALLEY | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| OSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| COTS INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 27 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, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- SWSouth Wood County Humane Society Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue -58%
- CICOTS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue -2%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $2k
Funded once
- THTHE HOPE HIGHWAY DOG RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $1k
- NPNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THEone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Done grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
Oconto area humane society is an open-admission shelter dedicated to providing protection, care and shelter for abandoned and homeless campanion animals
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
Community shares of wisconsin (csw), together with its donors and approximately 70 member nonprofits, addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research and public education.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
To alleviate hunger and promote self-sufficiency with dignity and compassion to low-income, elderly and disabled residents of Ozaukee County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of the Fox Cities Inc and the most unlike its peers is African Heritage Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 42 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 SOLUTIONS RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds South Wood County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds COTS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Fox Valley Memory Project Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds FOX CITIES FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KAUKAUNA GIRLS BASKETBALL ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING OUR COMMUNITIES WITH UNITED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds COVEY INC ↗
- Who funds SPIERINGS CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUILDING FOR KIDS 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Jek Foundation Inc · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
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 Wow We Care Charity of 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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