· Private foundation
Forest Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $46,400 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WI | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FDN OF EDUCATION FOR WOMEN | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC | $20,000 |
| GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTRE | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES MADISON | $7,500 |
| MADISON SENIOR CENTER FDN | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,055 |
| WYSO-MADISON MUSIC MAKERS | $5,000 |
| MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| FOUR SEASONS THEATRE | $4,000 |
| LAGUARDIA HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WMWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +92%
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +15%
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +7%
- FMFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MADISON SENIOR CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Madison Music Makers Inc ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
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 Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Forest Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forest Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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