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Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc

Boys & girls club of dane county will inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us the most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring adults.

$893k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$395k
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 FY2020–2025.

Employment$1.0MHousing & Shelter$206kCommunity Improvement$198kHuman Services$181kFood & Nutrition$96kEducation$36kPhilanthropy$17kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $804,132 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $893,485 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $89,353 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

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $409k
  • $250k+1 grant · $395k
$79,483
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WRTPBIG STEP$394,661
LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT$200,422
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$79,483
MADISON AREA BUILDERS ASSOCIATION$72,219
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC$57,347
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 (FY20–21, $153k) 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%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $20k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $17k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE: $15k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $6k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $10k → 10%YMCA OF DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $45k → 10%SOUTHEAST ASIAN HEALING CENTER: $10k → 10%FREEDOM INC: $10k → 10%FOSTER OF DANE COUNTY: $10k → 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 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 6 repeat orgs$557k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
26

Total granted

$1.2M
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+39%

Still filing today

83%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEmploymentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BS
    BIG STEP INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $692k · revenue +21% · 35% of their budget
  • MA
    MADISON AREA BUILDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $178k · revenue +2%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $174k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CH
    CENTRO HISPANO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +81%
  • VA
    VERONA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $21k
  • MN
    MADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +13%

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
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
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
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
4
Wayforward Resources Inc

Wayforward resources, inc. brings our community together to create food and housing security through action and advocacy.

Human Services
5
Newbridge Madison Inc

Providing older adults a bridge to successful aging.

Human Services
6
Dane County Parent Council Inc

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

Education
7
Madison County Urban League Inc

Madison county urban league, inc. provides direct services in housing, employment, and education, to improve the quality of life for disadvantaged people.

Human Services
8
Madison County Sheltered Workshop Inc

To provide employement opportunities to mentally or physically disabled individuals.

Human Services
9
Occupy Madison Inc

Occupy Madison envisions a place where people with or without current safe housing can live and/or work cooperatively in a way that promotes dignity, safety, stewardship, and sustainability for all. Their missions is to join together to…

Housing & Shelter
10
Housing Initiatives Inc

Housing initiatives provides housing assistance to hard-to-serve homeless persons with disabilities, mental illness, and drug and alcohol problems, primarily in the dane county, wisconsin area.

Employment
11
Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Inc

To promote fair housing throughout the state of wisconsin by combating illegal housing discrimination and by creating and maintaining racially and economically integrated housing patterns.

Housing & Shelter
12
Options in Community Living Inc

Options in community living provides support and coordinates services to enable adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live in their own homes. the agency assists people to make informed choices and reach their own…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro Hispano 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%12%<5yr13%12%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr16%42%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%19%<5yr13%2%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr18%6%20–35yr16%61%35–55yr15%13%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund close more than the field — 9% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
9%
3/33
the rest of the field
8%
342/4,097

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

27 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. 27 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIG STEP INC — $691,645 · OtherBIG STEP INCMADISON AREA BUILDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $177,824 · OtherMADISON AREA BUILDERS ASSOCIATION INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $174,473 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC+14 more — $155,011 · Other+14 moreLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC — $200,422 · EmploymentLATINO ACADE…CENTRO HISPANO INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HI…VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesVERA COUR…DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC …SUNSHINE PLACE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE …FOSTER OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER OF…SOUTHEAST ASIAN HEALING CENTER INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST…Young Men's Christian Association of Dane County Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men…YWCA MADISON INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesYWCA MADI…FREEDOM INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM I…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $110,750 · Youth DevelopmentMADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementPORCHLIGHT INC — $17,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT HOME INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED — $17,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,198,953Employment$200,422Human Services$153,000Youth Development$110,750Community Improvement$40,000Housing & Shelter$32,000Philanthropy$17,000

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 budgetBIG STEP INC — $691,645 over 3y, 35% of budgetMADISON AREA BUILDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $177,824 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $174,473 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $110,750 over 4y, 13% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $26,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED — $17,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT HOME INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNSHINE PLACE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOUTREACH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFOSTER OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Dane County Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION GEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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…The Evjue Foundation …Madison Community Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…Trustage Foundation I…Alliant Energy Founda…The Oscar Rennebohm F…Ascendium Education S…Sub-Zero Group Founda…Endres Manufacturing …The Roots and Wings F…Otto Bremer Trust
United Way of Dane County IncWI49× affinity21 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 · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust

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 Boys and Girls Club 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    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 33 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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