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Paying It Forward
Fundraising efforts for TLW’s friends and neighbors amounted to more than $13.5 million in 2021
By Carrie Mantey
Throughout the pandemic, Wisconsin’s bar and tavern owners have been quick to thank their loyal customers for helping them stay afloat by patronizing their businesses. And acting as the generous association that the TLW is, its membership returned the favor in a big way last year. The TLW is pleased to announce that the association donated over $13.5 million to almost 10,000 charitable organizations and people in need through the hard work and big hearts of its members, and the Matching Funds Program. The Wisconsin Tavern League Foundation, the charitable 501(c)(3) arm of the TLW, is the entity that coordinates this effort.
The Wisconsin Tavern League Foundation’s Matching Funds Program incentivizes TLW members to help others by boosting their efforts with matching funds. The program provides any Local League that raises money for any specific cause a matching amount of funds raised up to $1,500* a year. The types of charitable giving for which the Wisconsin Tavern League Foundation provides matching funds can range from individual college scholarships to helping a cancer victim to providing assistance to larger nonprofits. The only stipulation is that the League must issue a news release, so the public is aware of the TLW’s goodwill. TLW
* The Board of Directors recently voted that the Matching Funds Program allowance be raised to $2,000 a year beginning in fiscal year 2021-22.
COUNTY NAME
Adams County Ashland/Bayfield County Barron County Brown County Burnett County Chippewa County Clark County Columbia County Crawford County Dells/Delton Area Dodge County Door County Eau Claire City/County Fond du Lac City/County Forest County Grant/Iowa County Green Lake Area Jackson County Jefferson County Kenosha City Kenosha County Kewaunee County La Crosse City/County Langlade County Lincoln County Madison/Dane County Manitowoc County Marathon County Marquette County Milwaukee County
AMOUNT
$84,256 $200,000 $35,137 $1,064,945 $66,239 $118,403 $90,500 $50,000 $161,000 $3,257,534 $144,000 $271,450 $73,700 $21,333 $6,100 $1,192,850 $52,500 $38,000 $209,450 $63,993 $152,800 $438,654 $650,000 $128,622 $65,050 $191,000 $266,789 $12,800 $150,000 $808,268
NUMBER OF CHARITIES
32 350 98 307 97 206 52 35 572
350 20 80 13 7 2,805 16
190 21 107 83 356 42 94 17 173 18 117 60
Monroe County Oconto County Oneida County Oshkosh/Winnebago County Outagamie County Ozaukee County Pepin County Pierce County Polk County Portage County Price County Racine City Racine County Sauk County Sawyer County Shawano County South Central
$41,416 $73,000 $26,400 $78,280 $114,845 $232,000 $61,237 $80,000 $214,000 $602,500 $151,000 $60,000 $4,733 $25,000 $39,000 $40,000 $26,870
277 46 2 4 193 54 21 15 48 175 26 31 4 62 26 1,000 22
St. Croix County Superior/Douglas County Taylor County Trempealeau/Buffalo County Vilas County $267,002 $249,000 $18,000 $232,000 $37,000 168 240 6 545 45
Walworth County Washburn County Washington County Waukesha County Waupaca County Wood County
$87,490 $10,000 $200,750 $22,700 $150,000 $302,500 105 4 60 2
400 State Office of TLW $15,000 1
TOTAL $13,527,095 9,900
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