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Marshfield Clinic Health System Inc

Marshfield, WI · EIN 46-1495343. Reported 65 grants totalling $1,296,775 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

47organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$1,296,775granted, 2021-2023
46%of grantees funded again the next year
23%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 Marshfield Clinic Health System Inc, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in health care -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE E11).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 23% 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. 46% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,110 and the largest $120,500. 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
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
38 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
11 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 - $250,000
3 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
Marshfield Area United WayMarshfield, WI$301,000332023
Marshfield Area YMCA IncMarshfield, WI$110,000332023
United Way of Marathon County IncWausau, WI$103,464332023
Rice Lake Aquatics and Recreational Center IncRice Lake, WI$100,000112022
United Way of the Greater Chippewa Valley IncEau Claire, WI$65,000332023
Northwoods United Way IncRhinelander, WI$40,000222023
United Way of Portage County IncStevens Point, WI$32,500222023
24-7 Telecom IncDownsville, WI$30,000112022
Mosaic TelecomCameron, WI$30,000112021
NorvadoCable, WI$30,000112022
United Way of Dodge CountyBeaver Dam, WI$30,000332023
Wittenberg TelephoneWittenberg, WI$25,000222022
Marathon County Health DeptWausau, WI$20,986212023
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$20,000222022
Marshfield Rotary Foundation IncMarshfield, WI$20,000212023
United Way of Rice Lake IncRice Lake, WI$20,000222023
Vilas County Economic Development Corporation IncLake Geneva, WI$20,000112023
Eau Claire City CountyEau Claire, WI$17,977222023
Rotary InternationalMarshfield, WI$15,000112021
Town of Boulder JunctionBoulder Junction, WI$15,000112023
Town of DrammenEleva, WI$15,000112021
Oneida County Health DeptRhinelander, WI$10,650112022
County of Eau ClaireEau Claire, WI$10,325112021
Marshfield Area Chamber Foundation IncMarshfield, WI$10,025112023
Barron CountyBarron, WI$10,000112023
Benjamins HouseRice Lake, WI$10,000112023
Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area IncWausau, WI$10,000112023
Cap Services IncStevens Point, WI$10,000112023
Childcaring IncMosinee, WI$10,000112023
Community First Washburn County IncorporatedSpooner, WI$10,000112023
Embrace Services IncLadysmith, WI$10,000112023
First Presbyterian Church of Wausau WiWausau, WI$10,000112023
Good News Project IncWausau, WI$10,000112023
Hola IncWausau, WI$10,000112023
Medical Care Access Coalition of Dickinson County IncKingsford, MI$10,000112023
Nelson Communications CooperativeDurand, WI$10,000112023
Rhinelander Area Food PantryRhinelander, WI$10,000112023
Town of WashingtonEau Claire, WI$10,000112023
County of PolkBalsam Lake, WI$9,825112023
Chippewa CountyChippewa Falls, WI$9,000112023
Dr Moon Memorial LibraryStanley, WI$8,690112023
Chippewa Valley Technical College Foundation IncEau Claire, WI$7,500112022
Marshfield Youth Hockey Association IncMarshfield, WI$7,500112023
Clark Co 4H and FFANeillsville, WI$6,373112021
Central Wisconsin State Fair Association of Marshfield LtdMarshfield, WI$5,600112023
Rusk CountyLadysmith, WI$5,250112023
Wood County Clerk of CourtsWisconsin Rapids, WI$5,110112023

11 of 47 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 47 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.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
7 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
International Affairs
1 org
Health Care
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202115$385,198$15,000
202213$415,101$20,000
202337$496,476$10,000

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

98% 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
$1.3M
District of Columbia
$20K
Michigan
$10K

Down to the city

Marshfield, WI
$469K
Wausau, WI
$164K
Rice Lake, WI
$130K
Eau Claire, WI
$111K
Rhinelander, WI
$61K
Stevens Point, WI
$42K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsXcel Energy Foundation9 shared recipientsGreater Wisconsin Agency on Aging9 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of8 shared recipientsGreen Bay Packers Foundation7 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipients

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 $10,000 -- 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 Marshfield Clinic Health System Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1000 N Oak Avenue, Marshfield, WI, 54449.

EIN 46-1495343 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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