· Public charity
Donate Life Wisconsin Inc
Donate life wi increases awareness of the need for organ, tissue and corneal transplants and motivates people to register as organ, tissue and eye donors through outreach education, advertising campaigns and advocacy.
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 $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERSITI ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION | $27,805 |
| WISCONSIN EMS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $27,506 |
| UW ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION | $25,000 |
| THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | $13,840 |
| DONATE LIFE AMERICA | $9,870 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- VWVERSITI WISCONSIN INC3× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +50%
- MKMIDWEST KIDNEY NETWORK INC2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +17%
- LELIONS EYEBANK OF WISCONSIN INC2× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +29%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +7%
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 improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
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)
The wisconsin hospital association, inc.'s (wha) mission is advocating for the ability of its members to provide high quality health care services to wisconsin communities.the association fulfills this mission through the following values:…
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 wisconsin health information organization maintains a centralized health care data repository to provide data and information on the quality, safety, cost, and equity of health care to all health care stakeholders for improvement,…
To advance the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting medical education and health initiatives.
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.
Friends of uw health is a non-profit organization that funds programs and services to improve the lives of the patients and families we serve and support special health-related needs in the dane county area.
Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…
Support, promote, and facilitate partnerships with and provide funding for innovative early-stage and startup companies to lessen the burdens of government by promoting economic development and creating sustaining jobs in wisconsin.
We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wisconsin Ems Association Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 VERSITI WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST KIDNEY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin EMS Association Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LIONS EYEBANK OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds DONATE LIFE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donate Life Wisconsin 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.