· Private foundation
David S Bourne Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $20,000 |
| BIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| MADISON BACH MUSICIANS | $10,000 |
| GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ROOTED WI INC | $10,000 |
| GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| REAP FOOD GROUP | $10,000 |
| HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL | $10,000 |
| MUSIC CON BRIO INC | $8,000 |
| EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of David S Bourne Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 86%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RFREAP FOOD GROUP INC8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +42%
- MBMADISON BACH MUSICIANS8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +98%
- EMEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FFFOOD FOR THOUGHT INITIATIVE CO SECOND HARVEST FOODBANKone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
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.
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.
Create community-level nutrition security through gleaning and growing first-choice fresh nutritious and culturally relevant produce for donation to the local emergency food system.
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.
Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
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.
To promote community supported agriculture (csa) in wisconsin and strive to ensure that all families have access to locally produced, organic food and have strong connections to their farms, food, and community.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
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 organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds REAP FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED WI INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON BACH MUSICIANS ↗
- Who funds EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds MUSIC CON BRIO INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GROUNDWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds BIODYNAMIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David S Bourne Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David S Bourne Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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