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Wps Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$374k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
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 FY2020–2025.

Philanthropy$648kEducation$338kHealth$196kHuman Services$153kPublic Benefit$97kArts & Culture$87kHousing & Shelter$35kFood & Nutrition$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $123k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$100,000
EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC$12,500
PEOPLE INCORPORATED$10,000
NAMI WISCONSIN INC$10,000
EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN IN$10,000
NEWBRIDGE MADISON INC$10,000
AGRACE HOSPICECARE FOUNDATION$10,000
PORCHLIGHT INC$10,000
NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC$10,000
BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION$10,000
CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE$10,000
ARTS FOR ALL WISCONSIN$10,000
RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK$7,000
VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD C$5,500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Sierra Delta Inc: $2k → 8%American Red Cross Wisconsin Region: $5k → 10%St Vincent De Paul of The Valley: $3k → 12%Boulder Crest Foundation: $20k → 7%Sierra Delta Inc: $2k → 8%St Vincent De Paul of The Valley: $3k → 12%Boulder Crest Foundation: $20k → 7%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%Urban League of Nebraska: $5k → 12%NEWBRIDGE MADISON INC: $10k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD C: $6k → 10%Goodman Community Center: $5k → 10%Goodman Community Center: $5k → 10%Attic Angel Association: $3k → 10%SIERRA DELTA INC: $5k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $5k → 10%GILDAS CLUB MADISON: $5k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 65 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
53

Total granted

$1.3M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+17%

Still filing today

60%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +18%
  • BC
    BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +77%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • MA
    Madison Area Tech College
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • VH
    VETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ILLINOISgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +323%
  • VH
    Veteran Honor Flight of S IL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

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Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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6
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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8
State University of Iowa Alumni Association

Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.

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9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
11
Marian University Inc

Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…

Education
12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vogel Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Elementary Literacy TutoringFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Construc…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr19%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr19%60%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/88
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,438

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

82 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. 82 of the 151 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
55/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $584,258 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCMadison Area Technical College — $63,750 · OtherMadison Area Technical CollegeMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $40,000 · Other+94 more — $500,133 · Other+94 moreEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $63,750 · EducationMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $22,250 · EducationONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · EducationCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 · Education+13 more — $23,750 · EducationBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesNEWBRIDGE MADISON INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSIERRA DELTA INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DEPAUL OF THE VALLEY INC — $5,750 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA — $5,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesPSYCHARMOR INSTITUTE INC — $45,000 · Public BenefitMISSIONS OF HONOR INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS — $10,000 · Public BenefitUNITED THROUGH READING — $10,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $2,350 · Public BenefitBADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureArts for All Wisconsin Inc — $22,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $9,000 · Arts & CultureNEVER FORGOTTEN HONOR FLIGHT INC — $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $10,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · HealthNAMI DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 · HealthWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $5,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $5,000 · HealthLAPS FOR LEXI INC — $3,000 · Health+3 more — $3,700 · HealthUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC — $12,259 · PhilanthropyRSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC — $9,371 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of the Virginia Peninsula — $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,188,141Education$120,750Human Services$111,750Public Benefit$97,350Arts & Culture$78,500Health$56,700Philanthropy$34,130

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $584,258 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $63,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPSYCHARMOR INSTITUTE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI WISCONSIN INC — $33,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMISSIONS OF HONOR INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $22,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetArts for All Wisconsin Inc — $22,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $16,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC — $15,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC — $12,259 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetVETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS — $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetEASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC — $9,371 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE — $9,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $8,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA DELTA INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $6,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEVER FORGOTTEN HONOR FLIGHT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL OF THE VALLEY INC — $5,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR — $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIM'S OPEN DOOR INC — $5,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF NEBRASKA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLUMINUS FOUNDATION INC F/K/A MARQUARDT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA — $5,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetWMC FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $3,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAPS FOR LEXI INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATTIC ANGEL ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 2y, 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.

Madison Community Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Endres Manufacturing …United Way of Dane Co…Ascendium Education S…Hooper Corp FoundationThe Oscar Rennebohm F…DAVID G and NANCY B W…
Madison Community FoundationWI50.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Hooper Corp Foundation · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · DAVID G and NANCY B WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD

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 Wps 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 Wps Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Wps 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 151 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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