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Berbeewalsh Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of Berbeewalsh Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Berbeewalsh Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $420k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| MADISON CAT PROJECT INC | $142,161 |
| MADISON OPERA INC | $30,000 |
| OSKHOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $17,000 |
| AGRACE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| UNDERDOG PET RESCUE OF WISCONSIN INC | $11,000 |
| NORTH WINDS RESCUE | $10,000 |
| TRI 4 SCHOOLS (DBA ACTIVE YOUTH WISCONSIN) | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE COMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| GATEWAY TO THE DRIFTLESS INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMADISON CAT PROJECT INC5× · 2018–2025 · $609k · revenue +105% · 26% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $225k · revenue +21%
- MOMADISON OPERA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SHSHOREWOOD HILLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $150k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +49%
- AHAgrace HospiceCare Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +71%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
Humane treatement of animals
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
Fetch wisconsin rescue is dedicated to the rescue & rehabilitation of unwanted, neglected, and abused dogs found in shelters across the midwest, as well as dogs surrendered by local owners unable to care for them.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Angel's wish is dedicated to reducing animal overpopulation, rehoming companion animals, and raising awareness of animal welfare issues in south central wisconsin.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Uw-madison supporting organization, inc. is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes and for the beneift of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dane County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is North Winds Rescue. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MADISON CAT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITY OF MADISON POLICE K-9 AND EQUINE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERDOG PET RESCUE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Active Youth Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH WINDS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Tunica Humane Society ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LA CROSSE ALUMNI & FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL 311 CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds Gateway to the Driftless ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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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 Berbeewalsh Foundation 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.
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.
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