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Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

Wisconsin Rapids, WI · EIN 20-3333369. Reported 119 grants totalling $196,478 to 49 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$196,478granted, 2021-2025
49recipients, as named on its returns
57%of grantees funded again the next year
$405,382assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $2,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
49 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
60 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
United Way of South Wood & Adams CountiesWisconsin Rapids, WI$25,6711032024
Focus of SwcWisconsin Rapids, WI$20,000112021
The Family CenterWisconsin Rapids, WI$14,500552025
School District of NekoosaNekoosa, WI$11,000222025
United Way of South Wood and Adams CountiesWisconsin Rapids, WI$10,400312025
United Way of So Wood & Adams CountiesWisconsin Rapids, WI$10,357512023
School District of Wisconsin RapidsWisconsin Rapids, WI$10,000112021
Hannah CenterWisconsin Rapids, WI$8,500332025
Opportunity Development CentersWisconsin Rapids, WI$8,500332025
Opportunity Development CenterWisconsin Rapids, WI$6,000322022
United Way of Portage CountyStevens Point, WI$6,000552025
Focus Neighborhood TableWisconsin Rapids, WI$5,000542024
Wisconsin Rapids Public SchoolsWisconsin Rapids, WI$5,000112023
Operation BootstrapStevens Point, WI$4,500552025
Advocates for Wrps Education FundWisconsin Rapids, WI$4,000442025
Assumption Catholic SchoolsWisconsin Rapids, WI$4,000442025
Boys & Girls Club of Portage CountyStevens Point, WI$3,500322024
Mid-State Technical College FoundationWisconsin Rapids, WI$3,500212021
Mstc FoundationWisconsin Rapids, WI$3,000332024
Boys and Girls Club of Portage CountyStevens Point, WI$2,500332025
FocusWisconsin Rapids, WI$2,500112025
Wi Rapids Area Habitat for HumanityWisconsin Rapids, WI$2,500112024
Wr Habitat for HumanityWisconsin Rapids, WI$2,500112025
Boys and Girls Club of the Wr AreaWisconsin Rapids, WI$2,000222025
Incourage Community FoundationWisconsin Rapids, WI$2,000222025
Arts Council of South Wood CountyWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,750432025
Boy Scouts of AmericaWeston, WI$1,500332024
Port Edwards Educational FoundationPort Edwards, WI$1,500552025
South Wood County Historical CorporationWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,500552025
Boys & Girls Club of Wi Rapids AreaWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,250212024
Advocates for Wrps FundWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,000112021
Assumption - Royal EventWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,000112022
Boys & Girls Club of Wisconsin Rapids AreaWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,000112021
Boys and Girls Club of the Wisconsin Rapids AreaWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,000112022
Mid-State Technical CollegeWisconsin Rapids, WI$1,000112025
United Way of South Wood CountyWisconsin Rapids, WI$750112022
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central WiStevens Point, WI$600222024
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central WisconsinStevens Point, WI$600222022
Central Wisconsin Cultural CenterWisconsin Rapids, WI$600222023
Alex Dove FoundationNekoosa, WI$500112023
Arts Counicl of South Wood CountyWisconsin Rapids, WI$500112021
Samoset Council - Boy Scouts of AmericaWeston, WI$500112021
Wisconsin Rapids Noon Rotary Club FoundationWisconsin Rapids, WI$500112023
Wr Noon Rotary Club FoundationWisconsin Rapids, WI$500112024
Assumption Athletic AssociationWisconsin Rapids, WI$400112021
Jeremiah's CrossingBabcock, WI$300112025
Jeremiahs CrossingBabcock, WI$300112023
Boys & Girls Club of Wisconsin RapidsWisconsin Rapids, WI$250112021
South Wood County Humane SocietyWisconsin Rapids, WI$250112025

23 of 49 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 57%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 47 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
15 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Education
7 grants
Youth Development
7 grants
Arts & Culture
6 grants
Employment
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202128$68,150$875
202217$27,450$1,000
202326$33,357$875
202426$32,471$1,000
202522$35,050$1,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Wisconsin Rapids, WI
$163K
Stevens Point, WI
$18K
Nekoosa, WI
$12K
Weston, WI
$2K
Port Edwards, WI
$2K
Babcock, WI
$600

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Community Foundation of Central10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsIncourage Community Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsGreen Bay Packers Foundation9 shared recipientsAlliant Energy Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsSentry Insurance Foundation Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 339, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, 54495. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 20-3333369 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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