United Way of Walworth County
Lake Geneva, WI · EIN 39-1471340. Reported 69 grants totalling $723,403 to 31 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Walworth County, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 12% 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.
- How much its list changes. 74% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $13,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
19 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $201,387 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Action Inc of Rock and Walworth Counties | Beloit, WI | $83,675 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Beginnings Apfv Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $49,350 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Open Arms Free Clinic Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $48,625 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Christian League for the Handicapped Inc | Walworth, WI | $45,225 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 1000 Generations Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $43,525 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Special Methods in Learning Equine Skills Inc | Darien, WI | $40,150 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Wisconsin Inc | Delavan, WI | $34,728 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Walworth County Literacy Council Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $33,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Side By Side Inc | Lake Geneva, WI | $30,225 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Agape House Inc | Walworth, WI | $25,475 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Tree House Child and Family Center Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $25,157 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Geneva Lakes Family Young Mens Christian Association Inc | Lake Geneva, WI | $24,220 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dementia Friendly Community Initiative Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $23,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Walworth County Food and Diaper Bank | Elkhorn, WI | $23,600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | Atlanta, GA | $23,375 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bethel House of Whitewater Inc | Whitewater, WI | $21,740 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hope Now Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Vip Services Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Walworth County Drug and Alcohol Coalition | Powers Lake, WI | $12,425 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Day Womens Clinic Inc | Delavan, WI | $11,975 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Elkhorn Food Pantry Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Join the Movement Events Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wisconsin Makers Inc | Whitewater, WI | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seeds of Hope | Elkhorn, WI | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rock Walworth Comprehensive Family Services Inc | Beloit, WI | $8,130 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Geneva Lake Museum Inc | Lake Geneva, WI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Lake Geneva, WI | $7,975 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Bridge Food & Diaper Bank Inc | Elkhorn, WI | $7,628 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| BLOOM360 Learning Community Inc | East Troy, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Time Is Now to Help the Children and Elderly | Lake Geneva, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc | Fitchburg, WI | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
18 of 31 (58%) 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.
- Community Action Inc
EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE; ON-GOING COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY; HOMELESS SHELTER ASSISTANCE. - Open Arms Free Clinic
STRIVE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND SERVE THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS NEEDS OF THE UNINSURED, LOW INCOME AND UNDER-SERVED RESIDENTS OF WALWORTH COUNTY WITH COMPASSION AND UNDERSTANDING. - Inspiration Ministries
CREATE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WITH DISABLITIES CAN GROW, WORK, AND MATURE IN THEIR FAITH - New Beginnings Apfv
FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION; DIRECT INTERVENTION AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. - Dementia Friendly Community Initiative
COMPASSIONATE CARE AND SUPPORT FOR DEMENTIA PATIENTS - Geneva Lakes Family YMCA
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, HEALTHY LIVING AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 31 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 16 | $148,006 | $7,500 |
| 2021 | 15 | $189,250 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $184,760 | $9,850 |
| 2023 | 19 | $201,387 | $9,500 |
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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Wisconsin.
- 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 United Way of Walworth County'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.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 202, Lake Geneva, WI, 53147.
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