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It's Possible Foundation Inc

THE FOUNDATION MAKES GRANTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING A WIDE ARRAY OF SERVICES RELATING TO THE ARTS, EDUCATION, ANIMAL WELFARE, PHYSICAL FITNESS AND CHILDREN. THE FOUNDATION OPERATES ITS GRANT-MAKING IN CONNECTION WITH AND IN SUPPORT OF THE MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (ITS SUPPORTED ORGANIZATION). Its FY2024 filing reports that it…

$120k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
69%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 69% of the organizations It's Possible Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$120k15%
FY202313$115k69%
FY20229$71k89%
FY20215$34k100%
FY20201$4k100%
FY20191$10k100%
FY201814$34kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$175kHousing & Shelter$118kHealth$69kReligion$40kAnimals$32kYouth Development$25kEducation$22kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MA
NV
IN
CA
UT
VA
MD

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget It's Possible Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHabitat for Humanity of Wisconsin River Area Inc: $68,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDiabetes Youth Foundation of Indiana: $50,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Green County Inc: $48,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetChemical Educational Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGreen Cares Food Pantry Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetGreen County Humane Society: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVera Court Neighborhood Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTomahawk Together Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMadison Cat Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSignature Productions: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTuacahn Center for the Arts: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVegas Roots Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVerona Area Community Theater Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRed Rock Search and Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUlman Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSun Prairie Civic Theatre Corp: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBenedictine Life Foundation of Wisconsin Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to It's Possible Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to It's Possible 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.

About It's Possible Foundation Inc

How much does It's Possible Foundation Inc give?
It's Possible Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does It's Possible Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Health (12%).
Who are It's Possible Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin River Area Inc ($68k), Diabetes Youth Foundation of Indiana ($50k), Habitat for Humanity of Green County Inc ($48k).
Does It's Possible Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does It's Possible Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as It's Possible Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is It's Possible Foundation Inc based?
It's Possible Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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