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Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$113k
Granted FY2020
28
Grants FY2020
27
Organizations funded FY2020
11%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 29
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
10
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 11% of the organizations Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
Public BenefitCivil RightsEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202027$107k11%
FY201929$109k38%
FY201827$92k33%
FY201723$101kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$120kReligion$106kYouth Development$34kHuman Services$34kCivil Rights$30kSocial Science$25kEducation$19kHealth$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
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WI
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CA
CO
VA
DE
NC
DC
GA
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FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc$106,12545%
Telling the Truth Inc$52,50041%
Foundation for Economic Education Inc$25,00040%
La Casa de Esperanza Inc$16,00020%
Cornerstone Church$14,5002n/a
Elmbrook Church$11,5004n/a
Evangelical Child and Family Agency$10,0001n/a
Pioneers$7,0001n/a
Judicial Watch Inc$7,00030%
Prohealth Care Foundation Inc$5,25040%
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All grantees of Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc$106,12545%
Telling the Truth Inc$52,50041%
Foundation for Economic Education Inc$25,00040%
La Casa de Esperanza Inc$16,00020%
Cornerstone Church$14,5002n/a
Elmbrook Church$11,5004n/a
Evangelical Child and Family Agency$10,0001n/a
Pioneers$7,0001n/a
Judicial Watch Inc$7,00030%
Prohealth Care Foundation Inc$5,25040%
Old World Wisconsin Foundation Inc$5,00041%
Waukesha County Community Dental Clinic Inc$5,00040%
Waukesha Free Clinic Inc$5,00040%
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc$3,00021%
Institute for Free Speech$3,00030%
Wisconsin Right to Life Inc$2,50040%
Badger Institute Inc$2,00020%
Samaritan's Purse$2,00010%
Horizon Church Inc$2,0001n/a
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty$2,00020%
Cato Institute$2,00020%
The Heritage Foundation$2,00020%
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc$2,00020%
Acacia Theatre Company Inc$1,75041%
Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc$1,50020%
Focus on the Family$1,0004n/a
NextGen Pastors Inc$1,00011%
The Future of Freedom Foundation$1,00010%
The Navigators$5001n/a
Uwm at Waukesha Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Interlochen Center for the Arts$50010%
Troops Direct$50010%
Hawks Inn Historical Society Inc$2001n/a

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc: $106,125 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTelling the Truth Inc: $52,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLa Casa de Esperanza Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProhealth Care Foundation Inc: $5,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOld World Wisconsin Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWaukesha County Community Dental Clinic Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWaukesha Free Clinic Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWaukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetInstitute for Free Speech: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Right to Life Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBadger Institute Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIntercollegiate Studies Institute Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAcacia Theatre Company Inc: $1,750 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWisconsin Lutheran College Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNextGen Pastors Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Future of Freedom Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInterlochen Center for the Arts: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTroops Direct: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Waukesha County Community FoundationWI19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waukesha County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Mallinger Family Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation

How much does Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation give?
Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $113,100 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Religion (25%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc ($106k), Telling the Truth Inc ($53k), Foundation for Economic Education Inc ($25k).
Does Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Waukesha County Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
Where is Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation based?
Don L & Carol G Taylor Foundation is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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