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100 Men of Dane County Inc

We exist to support other organizations conducting charitable activities and providing relief to the poor, distressed and underprivileged.

$399k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Food & Nutrition$564kHuman Services$543kEducation$275kYouth Development$121kEmployment$96kRecreation & Sports$94kCrime & Legal$92kHealth$92kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $369k
$91,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYFORWARD RESOURCES$96,000
SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY$92,000
THE CANOPY CENTER$91,000
THE PLAYING FIELD$90,000
MAYDM$15,000
FELICIA'S DONATION CLOSET$11,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HANDS FOR HARVEST INC: $90k → 7%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $90k → 10%IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $82k → 10%BLW CENTER: $88k → 10%FELICIA'S DONATION CLOSET: $11k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $96k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education
2
Literacy Network Inc

Literacy network helps adults in dane county build skills, reach goals, and connect communities.

Education
3
Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc

We bring people together to build community as an inclusive, independent, community-supported nonprofit organization.

Human Services
4
My Sister's Place of Madison Inc

My sister's place, inc. is a non-profit agency that promotes domestic peace and safety through advocacy, support, and community education.

Health
5
Community Action Program for Madison County Inc

Community action partnership for madison county is an anti-poverty agency that improves the well-being and safety of children, families, and our community through a variety of programs and services.

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6
Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth Inc

To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic…

Human Services
7
Sunshine Place Inc

To provide comprehensive services that support essential needs through community engagement and partnerships.

Human Services
8
Madison Development Corporation

Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.

Community Improvement
9
Family Service Madison Inc

Our mission: providing human services to instill hope and promote wellness in our community.

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10
The Women's Center Inc

To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.

Human Services
11
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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12
Madison Adoption Associates Ltd

To bring hope, love and connection by serving children, individuals, and families in the areas of adoption, foster care, and support services.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Playing Field Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mentoring Positives Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%9%<5yr13%17%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%6%<5yr13%21%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
8%
344/4,106

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $96,000 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INCLOGAN JAMES HERR FOUNDATION INC — $91,000 · Human ServicesLOGAN JAMES HERR FOUNDATION INCMentoring Positives Inc — $90,000 · Human ServicesMentoring Positives IncHANDS FOR HARVEST INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesHANDS FOR HARVEST INCDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $89,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES I…VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $88,000 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INCIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $82,000 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY…+1 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $100,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FO…THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $97,000 · Food & NutritionTHE RIVER FOOD PA…EXTENDED HANDS PANTRY INC — $93,000 · Food & NutritionEXTENDED HANDS PA…CLIMB USA INC — $97,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLIMB USA I…MADISON READING PROJECT INC — $91,000 · Youth DevelopmentMADISON REA…JUMP IN FOUNDATION INC — $94,000 · EducationJUMP IN FOU…THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $90,000 · EducationTHE PLAYING…SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $92,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR…CANOPY CENTER INC — $91,000 · Crime & LegalCANOPY CENT…LITTLE JOHN'S RESTAURANT INC — $87,500 · OtherLITTLE JOHN'S REST…MAYDM INC — $15,000 · OtherMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $94,000 · OtherMADISON PARKS FOUN…RISE WISCONSIN INC — $91,500 · OtherRISE WISCONSIN INC+2 more — $14,000 · OtherOPERATION FRESH START INC — $96,000 · Employment
Human Services$637,500Food & Nutrition$290,000Youth Development$188,000Education$184,000Crime & Legal$183,000Other$302,000Employment$96,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMB USA INC — $97,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $97,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC — $96,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $96,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJUMP IN FOUNDATION INC — $94,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $94,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEXTENDED HANDS PANTRY INC — $93,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $92,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC — $91,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLOGAN JAMES HERR FOUNDATION INC — $91,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $91,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCANOPY CENTER INC — $91,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMentoring Positives Inc — $90,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHANDS FOR HARVEST INC — $90,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $90,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $89,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $88,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLITTLE JOHN'S RESTAURANT INC — $87,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $82,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAYDM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFELICIA'S DONATION CLOSET INC — $11,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …Madison Community Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Endres Manufacturing …Trustage Foundation I…United Way of Dane Co…Green Bay Packers Fou…Otto Bremer TrustMadison Rotary Founda…The Oscar Rennebohm F…Madison Investments F…
Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI42.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Madison Rotary Foundation · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Madison Investments Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 100 Men of Dane County Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to 100 Men of Dane County Inc?

    Find your warmest path to 100 Men of Dane County Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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