· Private foundation
Daniel W Erdman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UW FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| ONE CITY | $50,000 |
| BAYVIEW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| CXC | $22,127 |
| MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART | $17,500 |
| ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $5,000 |
| MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $5,000 |
| MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS | $5,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $566k · revenue +29%
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS INC3× · 2020–2023 · $165k · revenue +47%
- MAMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- CACXC ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $42k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CFCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -70%
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.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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.
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.
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.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
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…
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Public Schools Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. 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 44 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) — 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Red Caboose Child Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC MARKET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER 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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Summit Credit Union · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Nimick Forbesway Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions 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 Daniel W Erdman 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.