· Private foundation
Alvarado Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,100 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $8,200 |
| MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,200 |
| HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,250 |
| OVERTURE CENTER | $2,000 |
| MADISON OPERA | $1,950 |
| OPERA AMERICA | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY | $1,000 |
| HPCSA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| KONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $300 |
| WI HISTORICAL CENTER | $250 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $250 |
| FORWARD THEATER COMPANY | $250 |
| KONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $217 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $850) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +41%
- MOMADISON OPERA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +43%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2021 · $11k
- DCDANE COUNTY UNITED WAYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OFOPERATION FRESH START INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +209%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
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How this is measured
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds Opera for the Young Inc ↗
- Who funds KONA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bird Rock Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FORWARD THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun · United Way of Dane County Inc · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · Hooper Corp Foundation · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alvarado Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alvarado Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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