· Private foundation
Bradshaw-Knight Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT | $25,000 |
| DRAMA CLUB | $20,000 |
| PEOPLE BUILDING OPPORTUNITY THROUGH GRACE AND ACTION | $15,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES | $10,000 |
| DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| DELORES MISSION FODMC | $10,000 |
| BSP FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM | $5,150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ORGANIC EYE | $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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- SCSPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +215%
- DADRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +141%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +29%
Funded once
Nehemiah Project Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +10%- GGIIWEDINONGone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MIMARBLESEED INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +5%
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.
Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.
He fondy food center connects greater milwaukee to local, fresh food- from farm to market to table - so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
To help grow the demand for wisconsin milk by providing programs that enhance the competitiveness of the wisconsin dairy industry.
Saves the land that sustains us by protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land.
We envision collaborations rooted in food, land and learning so that people can grow and thrive in healthy, equitable and sustainable neighborhoods.
To conduct charitable, scientific and educational activities designed to foster the production of food in a manner that is economically viable and environmentally sound and provides for healthy and humanely raised products.
Our mission is to protect and improve habitat for birds and other wildlife through land acquisition and management, education, and advocacy.
The wmc litigation center's mission is to represent clients in legal actions to foster and protect the free enterprise system.
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldo Leopold Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Shakespeare Players 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 52 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 LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DRAMA CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Nehemiah Project Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds MARBLESEED INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN AND LAUREL BROWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTDANE ↗
- Who funds SKYSAVER PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOSES - WISDOM OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANICEYE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SHAKESPEARE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Beyond Pesticides ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD 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.
Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Inc · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings 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 Bradshaw-Knight 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.