How much does John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun give?

John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun reported 36 grants totaling $134,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Education (2%), Philanthropy (2%).

Who are John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc ($3.0M), Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum ($105k), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($50k).

Does John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun 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 John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Community Foundation, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.

John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun

John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun at a glance

· Private foundation

John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun

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.

$135k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$17k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.6MEducation$99kPhilanthropy$61kEnvironment$37kRecreation & Sports$29kHealth$22kCivil Rights$18kCommunity Improvement$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $76k
$10k–50k5 grants · $59k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$17,275
UW FOUNDATION	$12,000
CHILDRENS THEATRE OF MADISON	$10,000
VESTERHEIM	$10,000
MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION	$10,000
UW FOUNDATION	$5,500
OVERTURE CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
NAGC	$5,000
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN	$3,000
TORKSE KUBBEN FOUNDATION	$3,000
YWCA	$3,000
AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$739k · 36 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$739k

$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+6%

Still filing today

56%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +21%
CT
CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC
4× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +340%
MS
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
3× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +36%

Funded once

WH
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3.0M · revenue +299% · 34% of their budget
VN
VESTERHEIM NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -16%
VM
VESTERHEIM MUSEUM
one grant, 2020 · $25k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Landmark Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment

Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

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.

—

Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

—

Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment

Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc

Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.

Arts & Culture

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

—

Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment

Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fight for Sight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

27/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$3,210,507Other$566,325Education$98,000Philanthropy$60,500Environment$22,700Health$17,000Crime & Legal$13,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Madison Community FoundationWI51.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Hooper Corp Foundation · DAVID G and NANCY B WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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