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.

Colony Brands Foundation Inc

Colony Brands Foundation Inc at a glance

· Public charity

Colony Brands Foundation Inc

Support Madison Community Foundation, a Sec.

$6.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$4.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.8MEducation$2.7MArts & Culture$1.1MPhilanthropy$801kHealth$540kRecreation & Sports$357kAnimals$284kCrime & Legal$204kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $17k
$10k–50k6 grants · $120k
$50k–250k3 grants · $341k
$250k+5 grants · $6.1M

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Green County Family YMCA	$4,000,000
School District of Monroe WI	$1,000,000
Green County Development Corp	$510,000
UW-Madison Foundation	$300,000
Main Street Monroe Inc	$290,764
Family Promise of Green Cty	$181,660
City of Monroe - Parks & Rec	$100,000
UW-Madison Foundation	$59,257
Green County Cheese Days Inc	$35,000
Monroe Arts Center	$22,522
The Charles E Kubly Fdn	$20,000
Madison Community Foundation	$16,742
Rubin for Kids	$15,000
School District of Monroe WI	$10,500
Green County Humane Society	$9,545

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$17M · 31 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$342k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+8%

Still filing today

87%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

GC
Green County Family YMCA Inc
8× · 2017–2025 · $8.7M · revenue +268% · 81% of their budget
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +39%
MS
MAIN STREET MONROE INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $351k · revenue +90%

Funded once

TH
Turner Hall of Monroe Inc
one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -10%
BT
BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -32%
FO
FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +29%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Monroe Clinic Inc

Working together to achieve the highest standards in healthcare, we create healthy communities through god's healing spirit. vision: exceptional healthcare, an exceptional experience.

Health

Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment

University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

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…

Education

Wisconsin's Green Fire Incorporated

Advance science-informed analysis and policy solutions that address wisconsin's greatest conservation challenges.

Environment

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Downtown Madison Inc

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

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United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy

Wisconsin Medical Credit Union

Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…

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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

Madison County Historical Society

Arts & Culture

United Way of Green County Inc

Building a stronger community by uniting people and resources to solve problems and improve lives.

Human Services

Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc

The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Soc At the Un Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

29/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$9,072,391Other$3,465,045Education$2,062,896Arts & Culture$1,119,089Community Improvement$975,503Philanthropy$777,907Health$590,075

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin IncWI48.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colony Brands Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colony Brands Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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