· Private foundation
Irwin a and Robert D Goodman 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
80% of Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Madison Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k7 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $751k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYVIEW FOUNDATION | $1,250,000 |
| GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $588,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $254,833 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $190,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $166,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON | $109,800 |
| JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES | $107,543 |
| ROOTED | $66,500 |
| MADISON PUBLIC PARKS FOUNDATION | $60,700 |
| MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS | $50,000 |
| HILLEL | $41,000 |
| YOUNG JEWISH PROFESSIONALS | $41,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $41,000 |
| CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | $41,000 |
| CHABAD HOUSE OF MADISON | $41,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +23% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +80%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $880k · revenue +29%
- CACHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $453k · revenue +136% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget- MIMADISON ICE INCone grant, 2020 · $252k · revenue -2%
- OFOPERATION FRESH START INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +116%
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.
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.
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.
Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.
Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.
The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
Meaf provides scholarships to area students for education expenses
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.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
The madison community pool provides a quality seasonal recreational swimming facility for the members of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Burial Association of Madison Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 38 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 MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYSA (AFFILIATED) INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON ICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED WI INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BURIAL ASSOCIATION OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GROUNDWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens ↗
- Who funds MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · John J Frautschi Family 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 Irwin a and Robert D Goodman 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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