How much did FIREROSE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2022?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of FIREROSE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

healthfunctionssocial justicedanefree speechmedicalcancer

2020

scholarshipsradio

2021

scholarshipsradio

2022

scholarshipradio

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k6 grants · $100k
$50k–250k4 grants · $675k
$250k+2 grants · $500k

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

WINGRA SCHOOL$250,000
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO$250,000
MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL$200,000
DICKINSON COLLEGE$200,000
WOODLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL$200,000
CHENREZIG FUND INC$75,000
FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN$35,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WI$10,000
OREGON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPON$10,000
PRX$10,000
OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS$10,000
FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION$7,500
MADISON FRIENDS OF INTL STUDENTS$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–18, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.6M · 74 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2022, 60 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.6M

$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

-18%

Still filing today

51%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

WM
WOODLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL
5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +35% · 32% of their budget
CF
CHENREZIG FUND INC
5× · 2017–2022 · $354k · revenue +3% · 74% of their budget
DICKINSON COLLEGE
5× · 2017–2022 · $330k · revenue +6%

Funded once

AC
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
one grant, 2018 · $50k
AW
ACLU WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $50k
MA
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $25k

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.

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Madison Professional Police Officers

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.

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Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Wisconsin Association of Health Plans

Facilitate the education of policy makers, health care consumers, providers and purchasers about the concept and method of health services delivery by health plans; monitor and evaluate proposed legislation and administrative rules…

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Wausau Child Care Inc

Strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.

Human Services

Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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My Choice Wisconsin Inc

Former wisconsin based managed care organization.

Health

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Inc

Nonpartisan political watchdog group dedicated to clean government that advocates for a real democracy that allows the common good to prevail over narrow interests.

Health

Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress is a state-based candidate recruitment and training program, responsible for building a progressive network of elected leaders at the local and state level. our candidates represent the next generation of progressive…

Civil Rights

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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Midwest Environmental Advocates Inc

A nonprofit law center that combines the power of law with the resolve of communities facing environmental injustice to secure and protect the rights of all people to healthy water, land, and air.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dickinson College. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/51

the rest of the field

2,639/36,475

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/48

Grantees still filing

30/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,823,500Education$2,040,000International$449,000Arts & Culture$221,000Health$192,000Human Services$94,000Youth Development$76,000

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.

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.

The Roots and Wings Foundation IncWA66.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation FIREROSE 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHENREZIG FUND INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391949564 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHENREZIG FUND INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 74% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Firerose Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Firerose Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FIREROSE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Firerose Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

FIREROSE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Firerose Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph