· Private foundation
Jennie H Olson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of JENNIE H OLSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DODGER FOOD LOCKER INC | $50,000 |
| SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC | $35,000 |
| AGEBETTER INC | $35,000 |
| NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS | $30,000 |
| APOSTOLATE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABIL | $25,000 |
| JOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH | $25,000 |
| SKAALEN NURSING AND REHABILITATION | $20,000 |
| WI COUNCIL OF THE BLIND & VISUALLY | $18,000 |
| DODGEVILLE AREA SCHOLARSHIP FNDTN | $16,000 |
| MADISON WEST HIGH SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| MADISON READING PROJECT | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC MULTICULTURAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS DANE CTY | $15,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN COMMUNITY AC | $10,000 |
| ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $335k) 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. 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 7 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- AIAGEBETTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +70%
- SCSPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC7× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +135%
- NHNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $177k · revenue +67% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH CONGREGATION AND SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $30k
- MFMERITER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +33%
- DFDEAN FOUNDN FOR HEALTH RESEARCHone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…
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.
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Together, we create a warm and welcoming community enriching the lives of those we support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Trunk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 3% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 80 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 AGEBETTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds MAYSA (AFFILIATED) INC ↗
- Who funds DODGER FOOD LOCKER INC ↗
- Who funds DODGEVILLE AREA SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HODAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Trunk Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERITER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Hooper Corp 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 Jennie H Olson Charitable Foundation 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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