Wisconsin · Private foundation
First Business Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $339k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations First Business Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 63 | $339k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $130k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $212k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $202k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $165k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $184k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $94k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Dane County Inc | $289,348 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin | $149,999 | 5 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc | $135,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Agrace HospiceCare Inc | $60,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Madison Area Technical College Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Grand Oshkosh Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Edgewood University Inc | $27,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $25,950 | 2 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Madison Public Library Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($181k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
First Business Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About First Business Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does First Business Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- First Business Charitable Foundation Inc reported 63 grants totaling $339,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does First Business Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Health (14%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are First Business Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Dane County Inc ($289k), University of Wisconsin ($150k), Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc ($135k).
- Does First Business Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Business Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as First Business Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is First Business Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- First Business Charitable Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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