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Courtier Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$241k
Granted FY2022
27
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $205,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $240,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k17 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $134k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Dane County$27,000
American Red Cross of Southwest Wisconsin$20,000
Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc.$15,000
Madison College Foundation$12,000
Access Community Health Care Centers$10,000
Madison Waldorf School$10,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation$10,000
Foundation for Madison's Public Schools$10,000
Evansville High School Guidance Office$10,000
Miracle League of Dane County$10,000
Marquette University School of Dentistry$8,000
Africa 6000 International$7,500
Marquette University School of Dentistry$5,000
Catholic Charities of Madison$5,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County$5,000
02Your 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
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

2
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
3
Madison Teachers Inc

Madison teachers incorporated (mti) is a labor union representing teachers, substitute teachers, educational assistants, clerical/technical employees, and school security assistants who are employed by the madison metropolitan school…

4
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

5
Downtown Madison Inc

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

6
Wausau Child Care Inc

The mission of wausau child care inc. is to strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.

Human Services
7
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
8
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
9
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
10
Wingra School Inc

In service of learning, we practice responsive and progressive education, and strive for equity. in service of the whole person, we embrace unique gifts, experiences, and relationships. in service of social justice, we foster…

Education
11
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
12
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Youth Choirs Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Madison Waldorf School Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $27,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCAmerican Red Cross of Southwest Wisconsin — $22,500 · OtherAmerican Red Cross of Southwest WisconsinMarquette University School of Dentistry — $13,000 · OtherMarquette University School of DentistryAccess Community Health Care Centers — $10,000 · OtherAccess Community Health Care CentersEvansville High School Guidance Office — $10,000 · OtherEvansville High School Guidance OfficeMiracle League of Dane County — $10,000 · OtherMiracle League of Dane CountyAfrica 6000 International — $7,500 · OtherAfrica 6000 InternationalAgrace HospiceCare Inc — $5,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $5,000 · OtherMADISON YOUTH CHOIRS INC — $4,000 · Other+2 more — $4,500 · OtherMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · EducationMADISON AREA TECHNICAL …MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN…THE MADISON WALDORF SCHOOL LTD — $10,000 · EducationTHE MADISON WALDORF SCH…ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $5,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Dane County Inc — $4,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $4,000 · Food & NutritionTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $3,500 · InternationalSPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC — $3,000 · HealthMADISON AREA MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$118,500Education$42,000Environment$15,000Human Services$14,000Food & Nutrition$6,500International$3,500Health$3,000Arts & Culture$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MADISON WALDORF SCHOOL LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Dane County Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON YOUTH CHOIRS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMADISON AREA MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Widen Family Foundation Inc · Veridian 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.

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How do I get to Courtier Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Courtier Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $665k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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