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Cremer Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $297k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYVIEW FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OPERATION FRESH START | $40,000 |
| BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES | $35,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| SUN PRAIRIE EAST HIGH SCHOOL | $32,000 |
| THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| SUNSHINE PLACE | $25,000 |
| GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| GIFT TO UNITYPOINT HEALTH MERITER FOUNDA | $15,000 |
| CREMER FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| YWCA | $10,000 |
| SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON | $10,000 |
| FIRST TEE SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $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 (FY20–25, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- BYBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $161k · revenue +29%
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +12%
MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $90k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +47%
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -65%
- TCTHE COLONIAL CLUBone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
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.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is CHAMPIONS4KIDS Inc and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Abuse Intervention Services 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 48 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 BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERITER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Solace Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds OMEGA SCHOOL 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 · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cremer Foundation 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.
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