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Dudley Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$527kEducation$336kHuman Services$222kYouth Development$122kHealth$92kReligion$63kHousing & Shelter$60kRecreation & Sports$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC$75,000
MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$50,000
BRIDGE STREET MISSION$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC$15,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC$15,000
PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC$15,000
LIBERTAS INSTITUTE$12,500
MARY MOTHER OF GOOD HELP - HMONG CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
MARATHON COUNTY$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
SOUTH AREA FIRE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE DISTRICT (SAFER)$10,000
CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM$10,000
THE NEIGHBOR'S PLACE$10,000
NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$7,900
LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC: $4k → 10%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%STABLE HANDS INC: $20k → 11%WAUSAU CHILD CARE INC: $6k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 33 repeat orgs$440k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
44

Total granted

$1.3M
$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+4%

Still filing today

61%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • NT
    NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $211k · revenue +9%
  • PA
    PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $193k · revenue +765%
  • MC
    MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +682%

Funded once

  • WY
    WOODSON YMCA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    STABLE HANDS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -71%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
3
Rock River Repertory Theatre

Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture
4
Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc

The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…

Arts & Culture
5
Wausau Central Wisconsin Sports Authority Inc

To promote community awareness through sport activities. the organization also sponsors the badger state games (winter and summer) and other events. these events attract thousands of competitors and visitors from across the state and…

Recreation & Sports
6
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation Inc

The wisconsin broadcasters association foundation contribution to broadcasting in wisconsin encompasses a strategic, long term vision for enhancing, promoting and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of…

Arts & Culture
7
Wisconsin Council On Economic Education Inc

To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.

Social Science
8
Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra Inc

The central wisconsin symphony orchestra's mission is to enrich, engage and educate through the power and performance of live music. the vision of the central wisconsin symphony orchestra serves as a center of artistic excellence; through…

Arts & Culture
9
Wisconsin School Music Association Inc

Our mission is to provide statewide music programming activities, offer leadership and support for school music programs, and advance music as an integral part of the school curriculum and community life.

Education
10
Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc
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11
Waukesha County Community Foundation

Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…

Philanthropy
12
Women in Technology Wisconsin Inc

The mission of women in technology is to attract, grow, and retain women of all ages in technology-related careers. wit collaborates with professionals, companies, and communities to help women in technology of all ages and stages - from…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wausau Child Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%15%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr19%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%11%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr15%42%35–55yr19%19%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/56
the rest of the field
10%
1,104/10,598

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 87 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
26/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $210,900 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCWOODSON YMCA INC — $100,000 · OtherWOODSON YMCA INCNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $57,000 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGENEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE — $52,500 · OtherNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THEBRIDGE STREET MISSION INC — $52,500 · OtherBRIDGE STREET MISSION INCTHE SALVATION ARMY — $50,000 · OtherMONK BOTANICAL GARDENS — $40,000 · OtherLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC — $37,438 · Other+52 more — $376,075 · Other+52 morePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $193,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION …MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $109,500 · Arts & CultureMARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL …CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INCTHE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $15,500 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $44,783 · Arts & Culture+10 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC — $6,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,800 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $55,000 · Public BenefitLibertas Network — $12,500 · Public BenefitPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC — $10,000 · Public BenefitDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationWAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · EducationROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthCHRISTMAS IN JULY CHARITY — $5,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $4,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $45,525 · InternationalGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC — $5,000 · International
Other$976,413Arts & Culture$422,783Youth Development$107,800Public Benefit$77,500Education$62,500Health$59,500International$50,525

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $210,900 over 3y, 19% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $193,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $109,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC — $100,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWOODSON YMCA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC — $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE — $52,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $45,525 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC — $37,438 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $26,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTABLE HANDS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDCARING INC — $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $15,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLibertas Network — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHmong American Center Inc — $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRIB MOUNTAIN BOWMEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWAUSAU FESTIVAL OF ARTS INC — $8,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS — $7,660 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWAUSAU CHILD CARE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN JULY CHARITY — $5,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetKeep Area Teens Safe Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMOSAIC OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMIDSTATE INDEPENDENT LIVING CHOICES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAUSAU NORDIC SKI CLUB INC — $4,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCENTERSTAGE BAND AND SHOW CHOIR INC — $3,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetWAUSAU EVENTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARATHON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTH BEACH CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED — $1,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT PLAYERS THEATRE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Ba & Esther Greenheck…Judd S Alexander Foun…Dwight and Linda Davi…Green Bay Packers Fou…Incrediblebank Founda…Bell Family Charitabl…Church Mutual Insuran…Lewitzke Foundation I…Abbybank Foundation I…Wisconsin Public Serv…Paul & Ruth Schultz F…
Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin IncWI81.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Lewitzke Foundation Inc · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Paul & Ruth Schultz Fdn Agy

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 Dudley Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dudley Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dudley Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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