· Private foundation
Lewis 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $5,760 |
| GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,100 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $3,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D WISCONSIN | $2,000 |
| BUCKETS FOR HUNGER | $1,000 |
| WAUNAKEE NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $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 (FY17–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +70% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +113%
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue ×14
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +46%
- WAWAUNAKEE AREA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- MFMERITER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +33%
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.
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
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…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
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.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meriter Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Waunakee Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKETS FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Waunakee Neighborhood Connection ↗
- Who funds CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MERITER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALY WOLFF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds NEWBRIDGE MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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: The Evjue Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Rotary Foundation · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Cummings-Christensen Family Foundation · 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 Lewis 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.