· Public charity
Levy Giving Fund Inc
Provide funds, goods and support to local/community non-profits.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $100,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $138,636 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,336 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Family Children's Hospital | $42,700 |
| Saint John's School | $25,300 |
| Heartland | $10,300 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charity of Wisconsin | $10,000 |
| Madison Reading Project | $6,000 |
| Gildas Club of Madison | $6,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- GCGILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +33%
- HFHEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +1%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC3× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CCCURTIS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF HAGAR TOWNSHIPone grant, 2024 · $38k
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +32%
- DADOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -1%
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.
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)
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
The mission of gundersen lutheran medical foundation, inc. is to improve the lives of patients and our larger community through medical education, research, outreach, and the philanthropic support of gundersen health system.
Our mission is to improve human health by conducting, enabling and translating innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical research in partnership with the university of wisconsin-madison and others, by leveraging our collective strength in…
Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.
The madison waldorf school is an independent day school located in madison wisconsin, and a developing member of the association of waldorf schools of north america.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Madison health's vision is to provide exceptional healthcare in a respectful, compassionate, and healing environment.
Marc, inc. advocates for the full inclusion of all individuals with disabilities in the life of their community. we do so by fostering opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop a sense of self-worth and dignity, while…
The United Way of Dane County Foundation, Inc. exists to support the United Way of Dane County mission: to unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives. By providing a base of support, the Foundation helps United Way…
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 Domestic Abuse Intervention Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 GILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds Czars Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Investments Foundation Inc · Kalscheur Family Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · The Leola Culver Family Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · Only in Wisconsin Giving Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc
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 Levy Giving Fund 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.
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