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DAVID G and NANCY B WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| David and Nancy Walsh Donor Advised Fund | $150,000 |
| Goodman Community Center | $30,000 |
| Blind Travel Foundaton Inc | $30,000 |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin | $17,000 |
| Monona Grove Education Foundation | $15,000 |
| Rooted & Rising Washington Park | $10,000 |
| Foundation for Dane County Parks | $10,000 |
| The Foundation for Black Women's Wellness | $10,000 |
| United Churches of Galena Food Pantry | $10,000 |
| Senior Services Inc | $10,000 |
| The Center for Black Excellence and Culture | $10,000 |
| Vera Court Neighborhood Center Inc | $8,500 |
| Operation Fresh Start | $5,000 |
| St Vincent DePaul - Galena | $5,000 |
| HOPE Foundation - Jo Daviess County | $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 (FY17–25, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 17 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $638k · revenue +39%
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +113%
THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC4× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- MPMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +42%
- TRTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INCone grant, 2024 · $51k · revenue 0%
- OCOVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -4%
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
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)
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To support scientific research within the uw-madison community by providing financial support, actively managing assets, and moving innovations to the marketplace for a financial return and global impact.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
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.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
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.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 155 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 IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND AND VISUA ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds Recovery Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MONONA GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLIND TRAVEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATHERING WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds Amigos de las Americas ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds MEYER THEATRE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORKSHOP ↗
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 Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · First Business Charitable 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 DAVID G and NANCY B WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD 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.
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
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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