· Private foundation
Engelke Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $357k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CARTER CENTER INC | $1,753,425 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO | $854,433 |
| GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY | $375,000 |
| MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $207,450 |
| OBAMA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| UNICEF | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF MADISON | $10,000 |
| RUBIN FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $5,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $5,000 |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
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, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $8.9M · revenue +38%
- GUGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +16%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF6× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- RFRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY BUFFALOone grant, 2021 · $576k
- MLMIDVALE LINCOLN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $140k
- TFTELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 86 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 THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Thoreau Elementary PTO Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Helen Keller Services ↗
- Who funds RUBIN FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
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 · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Veridian Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · DAVID G and NANCY B WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation
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 Engelke Family 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.
- National Association of the Deaf — 58% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.