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Attic Angel Association

ATTIC ANGEL ASSOCIATION is a not-for-profit, independent organization of volunteers who improve the quality of life within dane county.

$246k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Housing & Shelter$643kHuman Services$445kHealth$265kEducation$121kPhilanthropy$99kYouth Development$75kFood & Nutrition$72kReligion$68kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $168,114 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $245,775 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,661 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $163k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC$27,395
LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH$25,000
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC$25,000
RISE WISCONSIN$25,000
BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC$20,000
WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC$20,000
ATTIC ANGEL PRAIRIE POINT INC$10,194
TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC$10,000
GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER$5,525
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AGEBETTER: $39k → 10%AGEBETTER: $38k → 10%AGEBETTER: $28k → 10%AGEBETTER: $28k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $20k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $15k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $15k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $15k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $20k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $14k → 10%YWCA MADISON INC: $30k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $40k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $31k → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $33k → 10%ORION FAMILY SERVICES: $16k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $20k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF MADISON: $15k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $20k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON: $13k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $13k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON: $13k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $146k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $78k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $60k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $58k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $47k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $39k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $27k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $20k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $20k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $20k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $7k → 10%ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC: $6k → 10%AGRACE HOSPICECARE HOLDINGS INC: $25k → 10%FORWARD LEARNING YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS: $12k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 24% of Attic Angel Association’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Attic Angel Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$409k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

$1.4M
$409k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+43%

Still filing today

94%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AA
    ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $468k · revenue +83%
  • AI
    AGEBETTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $133k · revenue +25%
  • TR
    THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • HI
    HMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $46k · revenue +43%
  • ND
    NAMI DANE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $34k · revenue +164%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue -31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Madison Community Cooperative

Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Education
3
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
4
Madison Area Care for the Homeless (Mach) Onehealth Inc

Madison street medicine is on a mission to develop programming and services to fill gaps in access to healthcare and housing in the madison area. we envision a community where individuals experiencing housing insecurity have equitable…

Health
5
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
6
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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7
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
8
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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9
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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10
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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11
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
12
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canopy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hmong Institute Incorporated. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%9%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr17%57%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr15%15%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/38
the rest of the field
8%
344/4,092

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.

05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC — $467,628 · Human ServicesATTIC ANGEL PLACE INCAGEBETTER INC — $133,125 · Human ServicesAGEBETTER INCTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INCWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $53,612 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human Services+8 more — $180,695 · Human Services+8 moreUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $114,238 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNT…THE RAINBOW PROJECT INC — $70,000 · OtherTHE RAINBOW PROJECT INCLIGHTHOUSE CHURCH INC — $50,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE CHURCH INCHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $45,600 · OtherHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPOR…FAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC — $45,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE MADISON I…TENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC — $21,711 · OtherTENANT RESOURCE CENTER I…ST DUNSTAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $17,925 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $17,596 · Other+2 more — $21,000 · OtherBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $65,000 · Crime & LegalCANOPY CENTER INC — $55,850 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $16,000 · Crime & LegalRISE WISCONSIN INC — $55,525 · HealthNAMI DANE COUNTY INC — $34,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $29,570 · HealthHORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC — $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $18,683 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE UW ODYSSEY PROJECT INC — $12,560 · EducationMiddleton-Cross Plains Area School District Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationATTIC ANGEL PRAIRIE POINT INC — $35,679 · Housing & ShelterEXTENDED HANDS PANTRY INC — $12,000 · Food & NutritionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $9,606 · Youth Development
Human Services$1,080,060Other$403,070Crime & Legal$136,850Health$119,095Education$61,243Housing & Shelter$35,679Food & Nutrition$12,000Youth Development$9,606

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetATTIC ANGEL PLACE INC — $467,628 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetAGEBETTER INC — $133,125 over 4y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $114,238 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $100,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE RAINBOW PROJECT INC — $70,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANOPY CENTER INC — $55,850 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC — $55,525 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $53,612 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $45,600 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetATTIC ANGEL PRAIRIE POINT INC — $35,679 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNAMI DANE COUNTY INC — $34,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC — $32,670 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $31,025 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $29,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Holdings Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTENANT RESOURCE CENTER INC — $21,711 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $18,683 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $17,596 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetORION FAMILY SERVICES INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $14,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEXTENDED HANDS PANTRY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetForward Learning Youth and Young Adults Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMiddleton-Cross Plains Area School District Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $9,606 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Dane Co…Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…The Evjue Foundation …The Roots and Wings F…Trustage Foundation I…Madison Rotary Founda…Endres Manufacturing …Alliant Energy Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Otto Bremer TrustSub-Zero Group Founda…
United Way of Dane County IncWI57.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Madison Rotary Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Sub-Zero Group 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 Attic Angel Association 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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