How much does E David Locke Family Foundation give?

E David Locke Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $30,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does E David Locke Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Religion (19%), Education (13%).

Who are E David Locke Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Dane County Inc ($72k), Love Morich Inc ($38k), McFarland Historical Society Inc ($16k).

Does E David Locke Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does E David Locke Family 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 E David Locke Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation.

Where is E David Locke Family Foundation based?

E David Locke Family Foundation is based in WI.

E David Locke Family Foundation

E David Locke Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

E David Locke Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$72kReligion$58kEducation$40kHuman Services$37kHealth$23kRecreation & Sports$18kYouth Development$17kArts & Culture$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $11k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$704k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LOVE MORICH INC	$10,000
SALVATION ARMY	$10,000
MCFARLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$3,000
E DAVID LOCKE PUBLIC LIBRARY	$3,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MADISON	$2,000
STOUGHTON HOSPITAL ALLIANCE	$1,000
ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE	$1,000
UW CARBONE CANCER CENTER	$500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$283k · 20 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$283k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+35%

Still filing today

35%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitReligionOther

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

ME
MCFARLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +0%
IT
IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +40%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC
4× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +323%

Funded once

UG
UW GOLF PRACTICE FAMILY FUND
one grant, 2017 · $5k
Mercy Ships Internationalgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +61%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
one grant, 2020 · $3k

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.

Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy

Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment

Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment

Minnesota Forest Industries Inc

To inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.

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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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Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy

My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health

Wispact Inc

We enhance the well-being of people of all ages with disabilities across wisconsin through the management of special needs trusts by promoting more choice and opportunities.

Human Services

Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment

University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education

University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc

University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation (UWMF) supports the teaching, research and service missions of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health by promoting the delivery of excellent and innovative patient care…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service Madison Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oregon Community Resource Network 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

19 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. 19 of the 37 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

16/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$263,770Education$16,000Religion$12,000Philanthropy$5,500Human Services$5,000Health$4,000International$3,000

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

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.

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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization E David Locke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E David Locke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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