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Wow We Care Charity of Wisconsin Inc at a glance

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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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$30kFood & Nutrition$15kAnimals$7kPhilanthropy$6kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$3kHousing & Shelter$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FOX VALLEY MEMORY PROJECT$1,500
CASA OF THE FOX CITIES$1,500
WOOD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
FOX CITIES FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS$1,000
KAUKAUNA GIRLS BASKETBALL ASSN$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHCE$1,000
WOOD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
RIVERVIEW GARDENS$1,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE FOX VALLEY$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%CASA OF MARATHON COUNTY: $500 → 11%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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 5 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$12k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
0%

Still filing today

60%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SW
    South Wood County Humane Society Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue -58%
  • CI
    COTS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue -2%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HOPE HIGHWAY DOG RESCUE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • NP
    NEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
2
Waushara County Food Pantry Inc

We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Pantry of Waukesha County Inc

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.

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4
Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals
5
Dodge County Humane Society Inc

Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.

Animals
6
Underdog Pet Rescue of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Animals
7
Oconto Area Humane Society & Animal Shelter Inc

Oconto area humane society is an open-admission shelter dedicated to providing protection, care and shelter for abandoned and homeless campanion animals

Animals
8
Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

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9
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
10
Community Shares of Wisconsin Inc

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.

—
11
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
12
Family Sharing of Ozaukee County Inc

To alleviate hunger and promote self-sufficiency with dignity and compassion to low-income, elderly and disabled residents of Ozaukee County.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of the Fox Cities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 42 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
8/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOLUTIONS RECOVERY INC: $25,000 · HealthSOLUTIONS RECOVERY INCFox Valley Memory Project Inc: $1,500 · HealthFox Valley Memory Project Inc+2 more: $1,000 · HealthFOOD & FARM EXPLORATION CENTER: $10,000 · OtherFOOD & FARM EXPLORATION CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $2,010 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE FOX VALLEY: $2,000 · OtherMIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE FOX VALLEYPORTIAS PURPOSE INC: $2,000 · OtherPORTIAS PURPOSE INCTHE HOPE HIGHWAY DOG RESCUE: $1,150 · OtherCASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC: $1,500 · Other+21 more: $12,472 · Other+21 moreSouth Wood County Humane Society Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsOSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $3,000 · PhilanthropyFOX CITIES FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS INCORPORATED: $1,000 · PhilanthropyFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING OUR COMMUNITIES WITH UNITED SERVICES INC: $600 · Food & NutritionCOTS INC: $2,919 · Housing & ShelterWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $500 · Human Services
Health$27,500Other$31,132Animals$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Food & Nutrition$3,600Housing & Shelter$2,919Human Services$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOLUTIONS RECOVERY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Wood County Humane Society Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOTS INC: $2,919 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE: $1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKAUKAUNA GIRLS BASKETBALL ASSOC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING OUR COMMUNITIES WITH UNITED SERVICES INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVEY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPIERINGS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Community Foundation …US Ventureschmidt Fam…J J Keller Foundation…Oshkosh Area Communit…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Greater Green Bay Com…Jek Foundation IncAbbybank Foundation I…Basic Needs Giving Pa…Oshkosh Corporation F…Thrivent Financial fo…
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI32.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wow We Care Charity of Wisconsin Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wow We Care Charity of Wisconsin Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to Wow We Care Charity of Wisconsin 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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