Wisconsin · Public charity
Colony Brands Foundation Inc
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- $6.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Colony Brands Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $6.6M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $4.5M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $676k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $959k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $660k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $1.0M | 47% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $583k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $1.6M | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green County Family YMCA Inc | $8,685,600 | 8 | 81% |
| School District of Monroe WI | $2,155,901 | 8 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $2,002,896 | 9 | 0% |
| Monroe Arts Center Inc | $931,852 | 9 | 44% |
| Green County Development Corporation | $625,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Main Street Monroe Inc | $350,503 | 3 | 10% |
| Monroe Clinic and Hospital Foundation | $303,161 | 7 | 45% |
| Family Promise of Green County Inc | $276,135 | 9 | 28% |
| City of Monroe | $168,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 19% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Colony Brands Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Only in Wisconsin Giving Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Community Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Green County Inc · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun · United Way of Dane County Inc
How this is measured
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About Colony Brands Foundation Inc
- How much does Colony Brands Foundation Inc give?
- Colony Brands Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $6,675,328 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Colony Brands Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Education (23%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Colony Brands Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Green County Family YMCA Inc ($8.7M), School District of Monroe WI ($2.2M), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($2.0M).
- Does Colony Brands Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Colony Brands Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Only in Wisconsin Giving Inc.
- Where is Colony Brands Foundation Inc based?
- Colony Brands Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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