· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k24 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TELLING THE TRUTH | $20,000 |
| ETHNOS 360 | $12,500 |
| WISCONSIN PHILHARMONIC | $11,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| TORCHBEARERS | $6,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| ELMBROOK CHURCH | $6,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICAN'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOULDER JUNCTION | $3,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S MEDICAL & DENTAL CLINIC | $2,000 |
| WAUKESHA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| OLD WORLD WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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.
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 -24% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TWThe Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $106k · revenue +16%
- FFFoundation for Economic Education Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +66%
LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- ECEVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCYone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +14%
- PPIONEERSone grant, 2018 · $7k
- NTNEW TRIBES MISSIONSETHNOS 360one grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
Wartburg college is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 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) — 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.
28 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. 28 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 The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc ↗
- Who funds TELLING THE TRUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds OLD WORLD WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BADGER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ACACIA THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Don L & Carol G Taylor 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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