· Private foundation
Lois a Krantz Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONCALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $8,622 |
| BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER | $8,622 |
| GIFT OF ADOPTION | $8,070 |
| OUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC | $6,878 |
| WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE | $6,878 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY | $4,045 |
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 (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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 +74% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI5× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +74%
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK2× · 2018–2021 · $16k · revenue +40%
- OLOUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC INC2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- EHEDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $13k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +48%
- DCDISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC DBA SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.
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.
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The partnership is committed to housing for everyone because it's essential for building healthy communities. we build effective public-private partnerships to expand access to affordable housing options. we do this by directly developing…
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Our mission is to foster compassionate human and animal connections; forge safe, healthy, and thriving communities for animals; provide care and transitional sheltering to animals; provide leadership and guidance to the animal sheltering…
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
Madison street medicine is on a mission to develop programming and services to fill gaps in access to healthcare and housing in the madison area. we envision a community where individuals experiencing housing insecurity have equitable…
Recognizing the worth and dignity of each person, hopes helps people end their homelessness.
The wisconsin trust account foundation works with civil legal aid organizations in wisconsin to increase access to justice. we oversee funds and invest in services and projects to help people resolve legal problems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayforward Resources 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.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PUPPY UP FOUNDATION ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Kalscheur Family Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · John H & Kathleen H Schneider Family Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Lois a Krantz 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.
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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