The Basic Needs Giving Partnership recently awarded 2025 technical assistance grants totaling $442,446 to 46 organizations across Northeast Wisconsin.
The grant awards are up to $10,000 each and are designed to help nonprofit organizations strengthen their internal capacity through short-term technical assistance. From strategic planning and fundraising to governance and financial management, this support helps organizations grow stronger and more effective in advancing their mission.
This funding supports critical work in the areas of early care and education (birth to age 5), housing access, mental health, and substance use.
Grants are focused on efforts that are addressing the root causes of poverty in rural, urban, and suburban communities across the ten-county region. Funding is generated by the annual U.S. Venture Open.
The 2025 event raised $5.2 million for the Basic Needs Giving Partnership and every dollar donated goes to end poverty. In the 40-year history of the U.S. Venture Open, $63 million has been granted to regional nonprofits.
“We’re helping nonprofits innovate, collaborate, and deepen their impact in the communities they serve,” said Greg Vandenberg, director of giving and community engagement for U.S. Venture. “This work is essential to building thriving, equitable communities across our region.”
A grantmaking match of $600,000 from the J. J. Keller Foundation, $200,000 from Oshkosh Corporation, ThedaCare and the Thrivent Foundation help lead this effort.
Recipients of the Basic Needs Giving Partnership 2025 Technical Assistance Grants are:
- Aging & Disability Resource Center of Brown County – $8,500
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Central Wisconsin – $4,250
- Boys & Girls Clubs of the Bay & Lakes Region – $10,000
- Casa Hispana – $10,000
- Catalpa Health – $10,000
- Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Services, Inc – $8,000
- Chuters Youth Amateur Boxing – $10,000
- Community Action for Healthy Living – $10,000
- Community Benefit Tree – $10,000
- Community for Hope of Greater Oshkosh – $10,000
- Culture Curls & Confidence – $10,000
- Day By Day Shelter – $10,000
- Ecumenical Partnership for Housing – $9,000
- ESTHER – $9,900
- Exceptional Equestrians – $10,000
- Family & Childcare Resources of NEW – $10,000
- Foundations for Living – $10,000
- Foundations Health & Wholeness Inc. – $10,000
- Fox Valley Veterans Council – $10,000
- Freedom House Ministries – $10,000
- Oshkosh Healthy Neighborhoods – $10,000
- Hope & Help Together – $10,000
- Hope Clinic and Care Center – $10,000
- House of Hope Green Bay, Inc. – $10,000
- Jackie Nitschke Center – $9,296
- Lutheran Counseling and Family Services of Wisconsin – $10,000
- Mandolin Foundation LLC – $7,500
- Multicultural Coalition – $10,000
- NAMI Oshkosh – $10,000
- Oshkosh Pride – $10,000
- Outagamie County Conflict Resolution Center – $10,000
- Pillars – $10,000
- Redemptions Recovery – $10,000
- Safe Families for Children Fox Cities/Green Bay – $10,000
- Samaritan – $10,000
- SAGE – $10,000
- Shawano Menominee Resiliency Coalition – $10,000
- St. Vincent de Paul Green Bay – $10,000
- St. Vincent de Paul Society of Appleton – $10,000
- Third Space – $10,000
- Mary Beth Nienhaus Activity Center – $10,000
- Us 2 Behavioral Health Care, Inc. – $10,000
- Veterans 1st of NEW, Inc. – $10,000
- Wise Women Gathering Place, Inc. – $10,000
- YMCA of the Fox Cities – $10,000
- YWCA Greater Green Bay – $10,000
