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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.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$232kPublic Safety & Disaster$28k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIDWEST KIDNEY NETWORK INC: $37k → 11%WISCONSIN EMS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $28k → 10%LIONS EYE BANK OF WI: $12k → 10%VERSITI WISCONSIN INC: $24k → 17%DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $10k → 9%MIDWEST KIDNEY NETWORK INC: $18k → 11%LIONS EYE BANK OF WI: $10k → 10%VERSITI WISCONSIN INC: $15k → 17%THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $17k → 10%THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $14k → 10%THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $7k → 10%UW ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION: $25k → 10%UW ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION: $9k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 4 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$183k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+29%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VW
    VERSITI WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +50%
  • MK
    MIDWEST KIDNEY NETWORK INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +17%
  • LE
    LIONS EYEBANK OF WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $22k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +29%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

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.

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2
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

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)

Education
3
Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc

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:…

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4
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
5
Wisconsin Health Information Organization Inc

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,…

Health
6
Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation Inc

To advance the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting medical education and health initiatives.

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7
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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.

Education
8
Friends of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Inc

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.

Health
9
Medical Society of Milwaukee Foundation Inc
Health
10
Wisconsin Medical Credit Union

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…

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11
Wisconsin Technology Innovation Initiative Inc

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.

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12
Wisconsin Bankers Association

We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VERSITI WISCONSIN INC: $67,148 · HealthVERSITI WISCONSIN INCMIDWEST KIDNEY NETWORK INC: $55,000 · HealthMIDWEST KIDNEY NETWORK INCUniversity of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc: $25,000 · HealthUniversity of Wisconsin Medical Foundation IncLIONS EYEBANK OF WISCONSIN INC: $22,051 · HealthLIONS EYEBANK OF WISCONSIN INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $5,966 · HealthUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $38,700 · OtherUniversity of Wiscons…DONATE LIFE AMERICA: $9,870 · OtherDONATE LIFE AMERICAWisconsin EMS Association Foundation Inc: $27,506 · Public Safety & DisasterWisconsin EM…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Education
Health$175,165Other$48,570Public Safety & Disaster$27,506Education$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVERSITI WISCONSIN INC: $67,148 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST KIDNEY NETWORK INC: $55,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetWisconsin EMS Association Foundation Inc: $27,506 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS EYEBANK OF WISCONSIN INC: $22,051 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDONATE LIFE AMERICA: $9,870 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $5,966 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Donate Life Wisconsin Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donate Life Wisconsin Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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