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Firerose Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2022
14
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$3.9MArts & Culture$1.8MHealth$1.1MInternational$362kCivil Rights$176kHuman Services$174kCrime & Legal$95kPhilanthropy$82kOther$0
02FY2022 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $675k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$35,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINGRA SCHOOL$250,000
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO$250,000
DICKINSON COLLEGE$200,000
WOODLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL$200,000
MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL$200,000
CHENREZIG FUND INC$75,000
FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN$35,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
OREGON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPON$10,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WI$10,000
OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS$10,000
PRX$10,000
FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION$7,500
MADISON FRIENDS OF INTL STUDENTS$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–18, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $10k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CTR: $10k → 10%WI MEDICAL PROJECT: $5k → 10%WI MEDICAL PROJECT: $5k → 10%KIDS FORWARD: $20k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICE: $15k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $15k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $15k → 10%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 10%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $6k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $3k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $8k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 73 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2022, 59 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
27

Total granted

$7.6M
$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+34%

Still filing today

68%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22
InternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +66%
  • WM
    Woodland Montessori School Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +35% · 32% of their budget
  • WS
    WINGRA SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $640k · revenue +67%

Funded once

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

1
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
2
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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3
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

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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4
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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5
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
6
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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7
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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8
Wisconsin Dental Association Inc

Advance the interests of wda members and the dental profession by promoting professional excellence and quality oral health care for the public.

Community Improvement
9
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

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10
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.

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11
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
12
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Forward Inc; the most unlike its peers is Woodland Montessori School 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

65 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. 65 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL: $1,300,000 · OtherMOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOLPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $600,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+51 more: $1,002,500 · Other+51 moreWoodland Montessori School Inc: $1,020,000 · EducationWoodland Montessori School IncWINGRA SCHOOL INC: $640,000 · EducationWINGRA SCHOOL INCDICKINSON COLLEGE: $330,000 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGEMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Education+5 more: $76,000 · EducationWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $1,400,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO …NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO I…FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSI…+2 more: $26,000 · Arts & CultureCHENREZIG FUND INC: $354,000 · InternationalCHENREZIG …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $150,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100,000 · InternationalUNITED STA…ALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING: $25,000 · International+6 more: $90,000 · International+6 moreAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $50,000 · HealthWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC: $50,000 · HealthJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthRISE WISCONSIN INC: $20,000 · HealthRAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $16,000 · HealthLAST MILE HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthBadger Childhood Cancer Network Inc: $8,000 · HealthMORE SMILES WISCONSIN: $8,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthYWCA MADISON INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesKIDS FORWARD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWisconsin Medical Project Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $50,000 · Crime & LegalBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY JUSTICE INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Crime & LegalJUVENILE LAW CENTER: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,902,500Education$2,146,000Arts & Culture$1,646,000International$719,000Health$212,000Human Services$155,000Crime & Legal$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $1,400,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetWoodland Montessori School Inc: $1,020,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetWINGRA SCHOOL INC: $640,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCHENREZIG FUND INC: $354,000 over 5y, 74% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE: $330,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Physicians for Social Responsibility: $54,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $40,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $23,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $22,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Radio International Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRed Caboose Child Care Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS FORWARD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBadger Childhood Cancer Network Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PROGRESSIVE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

The Roots and Wings F…Madison Community Fou…The Evjue Foundation …Madison Gas and Elect…Endres Manufacturing …United Way of Dane Co…Ascendium Education S…Alliant Energy Founda…Madison Rotary Founda…Trustage Foundation I…Green Bay Packers Fou…The Oscar Rennebohm F…
The Roots and Wings Foundation IncWA79.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Rotary Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc

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 Firerose Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Firerose Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • First Candle Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Aha Foundation Inc: 42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Firerose Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Firerose 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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