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John J Frautschi Family 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k85 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $199k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $77,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY WOMEN'S SHELTER | $25,000 |
| MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES (DAIS) | $19,500 |
| AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE | $17,500 |
| CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY | $11,000 |
| MADISON LAKEWAY PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE | $9,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
98 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MYMADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue ×14
American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +12%- OCOVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- WYWISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASone grant, 2022 · $110k
- DDAISone grant, 2022 · $18k
- ISINCITE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY SANTA FEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +32%
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
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)
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
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.
Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
In service of learning, we practice responsive and progressive education, and strive for equity. in service of the whole person, we embrace unique gifts, experiences, and relationships. in service of social justice, we foster…
The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overture Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vogel Foundation Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 131 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 UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds GREATER MADISON CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
- Who funds Madison LakeWay Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds UPSTART CROWS OF SANTE FE ↗
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 · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat
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 John J Frautschi Family 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.
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
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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