· Private foundation
Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER FOOD PANTRY | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF DANE COUNTY | $33,000 |
| THE RAINBOW PROJECT INC | $22,500 |
| DANE COUNTY CULTURAL AFFAIRS | $20,000 |
| THE PLAYING FIELD | $16,000 |
| MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS | $15,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC | $12,000 |
| PORCHLIGHT INC | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN LATINO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| MADISON READING PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CAPITOL WATER TRAILS LTD | $10,000 |
| BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| MORE SMILES WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 54% of Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 47% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 28 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- TRTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +124%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC7× · 2018–2024 · $69k · revenue +28%
- MCMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC6× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -18%
- RHRESTORING HOPE TRANSPLANT HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -71%
- WCWAUNAKEE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING EDUCATION DEPTone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The partnership is committed to housing for everyone because it's essential for building healthy communities. we build effective public-private partnerships to expand access to affordable housing options. we do this by directly developing…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
We envision collaborations rooted in food, land and learning so that people can grow and thrive in healthy, equitable and sustainable neighborhoods.
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Regeneration International 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
128 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. 128 of the 224 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Badger Childhood Cancer Network Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESTORING HOPE TRANSPLANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE JOHN'S RESTAURANT INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Sauk Prairie Parks and Recreation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYDM INC ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arts for All Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DISABILITES DYSLEXIA INC ↗
- Who funds RISE WISCONSIN INC ↗
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: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc
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 Endres Manufacturing 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
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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