· Private foundation
Jenni & Kyle 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $515k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SANIBEL CAPTIVE CONSERVATION FOUNDA | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GIGIS PLAYHOUSE MADISON | $100,000 |
| MEQUON NATURE PRESERVE | $60,000 |
| ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE | $55,000 |
| DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| SOUTHER WI BIRD ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSE | $40,000 |
| MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY | $25,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ARTS FOR ALL WISCONSIN | $7,500 |
| MARC INC | $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 (FY25–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Jenni & Kyle Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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
- MPMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +42%
- SWSOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +372%
- ITIT TAKES A VILLAGE CHICAGO INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- RLRESTORING LANDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +340%
- BBBADGERLAND BIRD ALLIANCEone grant, 2023 · $40k
- SWSOUTHERN WI BIRD ALLIANCEone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Schlitz audubon nature center conserves our land's diverse habitats on lake michigan and provides meaningful experiences and environmental education for all.
The mission of the wisconsin woodland owners association is to conserve and enhance the private woodlands of the state through the following actions: sustainably manage our woodlands with informed management plans that utilize best…
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
Conserve now, that the future may live!
To empower and support wpra members by fostering professional growth, advocating for the parks and recreation profession, and enhancing the quality of life for communities across wisconsin through education, networking, and leadership…
Wisconsin Wetlands Association is dedicated to the protection, restoration, and enjoyment of wetlands and associated ecosystems through science-based programs, education, and advocacy.
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
To foster and promote appreciation and understanding of the natural world by educational, scientific, investigative, literary, philanthropic and charitable pursuits. michigan audubon connects birds and people for the benefit of both…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is It Takes a Village Chicago Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 25 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds IT TAKES A VILLAGE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds Arts for All Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WAISMAN CENTER ↗
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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Community Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Jenni & Kyle 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.