· Private foundation
First Business Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC | $125,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $38,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| STEVE STRICKER AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE | $15,000 |
| ENVISION UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $9,100 |
| COMMUNITY SMILES DENTAL | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEER CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL WI | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| THE GRAND OSHKOSH INC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC | $5,000 |
| LAD LAKE INC | $5,000 |
| EDGEWOOD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| REEDSBURG AREA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC3× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +13%- AHAgrace HospiceCare Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +85%
MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATERone grant, 2022 · $20k
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $12k
- WBWI Bankers Foundationone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
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…
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
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.
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is CHAMPIONS4KIDS Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vogel Foundation 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 150 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 UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Stoughton Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SSND MMU MCH VENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds VOGEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARBONE CANCER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Envision Unlimited ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MAYDM INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL LIBRARY SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW NORTH INC ↗
- Who funds REAP FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOUNDATION 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 · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · DAVID G and NANCY B WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD · M3 Insurance Foundation 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 First Business Charitable 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.
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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