GrantmakersWisconsin

Beaver Dam Community Hospitals

Beaver Dam, WI · EIN 39-1499140. Reported 37 grants totalling $1,946,547 to 28 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$17,600median reported grant
$1,946,547granted, 2020-2023
29%of grantees funded again the next year
30%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Beaver Dam Community Hospitals, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E00J) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 30% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 29% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $17,600. Half of what it reported fell between $5,775 and $42,234; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $525,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
14 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
YMCA of Dodge County IncBeaver Dam, WI$585,000332023
Church Health Services IncBeaver Dam, WI$475,000222023
The Gathering Source IncJuneau, WI$205,000222023
Beaver Dam Community Hospitals IncBeaver Dam, WI$107,148332022
City of Beaver DamBeaver Dam, WI$105,000222023
Beaver Dam Hockey Association IncBeaver Dam, WI$100,000112023
Society of St Vincent De Paul Council of Dodge County IncBeaver Dam, WI$55,000222023
Beaver Dam Fire DepartmentRoseboro, NC$50,000112023
Maryville EmsMaryville, WI$38,788112022
Marshfield Clinic Health System IncMarshfield, WI$28,884112023
Mayville Open Door IncMayville, WI$25,000112023
People Against a Violent Environment IncorporatedBeaver Dam, WI$25,000112020
Clyman Lowell Reeseville Fire and Ems AssociationReeseville, WI$19,290112022
Plant Therapy IncTwin Falls, ID$17,600112020
Village of HustisfordNeosha, WI$15,000112023
Horicon Athletic Booster Club IncHoricon, WI$10,000112021
Meadowview Primary Schoolwaupun School DistrictWaupun, WI$10,000222021
Moraine Park Technical CollegeFond Du Lac, WI$10,000112020
Sages Foundation IncFox Lake, WI$10,000112022
Village of ClymanClyman, WI$9,360112023
Living Hope Food Pantry IncorporatedFox Lake, WI$8,692112023
Dodge County Fair AssnBeaver Dam, WI$5,810112020
FirstBeaver Dam, WI$5,775112023
Green Valley EnterprisesBeaver Dam, WI$5,200112021
Beaver Dam Chamber of CommerceBeaver Dam, WI$5,000112020
Mayville School DistrictMayville, WI$5,000112020
Pregnancy Support Center of Dodge County IncBeaver Dam, WI$5,000112021
St Johns Lutheran ChurchMayville, WI$5,000112021

7 of 28 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
4 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Religion
1 org
Mutual Benefit
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202010$91,995$5,405
20217$107,434$5,200
20227$1,004,407$38,788
202313$742,711$28,884

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

97% of its giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Wisconsin
$1.9M
North Carolina
$50K
Idaho
$18K

Down to the city

Beaver Dam, WI
$1.5M
Juneau, WI
$205K
Roseboro, NC
$50K
Maryville, WI
$39K
Mayville, WI
$35K
Marshfield, WI
$29K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $17,600 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Wisconsin.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Beaver Dam Community Hospitals's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 707 South University Avenue, Beaver Dam, WI, 53916.

EIN 39-1499140 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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