· Public charity
M3 Insurance Foundation Inc
(see schedule o)the foundation was organized to promote the charitable attitudes of the employees at m3 solutions, inc.
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.
The 21 grants below total $360,260 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $443,580 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $83,320 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $129,770 |
| THE PLAYING FIELD | $25,000 |
| FORK FARMS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA | $21,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $15,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN - NORTHEAST REGION | $12,000 |
| ALL-IN-MILWAUKEE INC | $10,000 |
| LIFESTRIDERS INC | $10,000 |
| OBJECTIVE VETERANS SMILE | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY SMILES DENTAL | $9,000 |
| ST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING | $9,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY | $9,000 |
| OPERATION FRESH START | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - WISCONSIN REGION | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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 +20% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 13 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k 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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC4× · 2018–2022 · $115k · revenue +66%
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC4× · 2019–2023 · $80k · revenue +35%- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue -83%
- CCCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INCone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -31%
- LHLUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -31%
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
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.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reach a Child 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 107 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 CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds STARTINGBLOCK MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED LUTHERAN PROGRAM FOR THE AGING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENOSHA INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds RISE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ABLELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF HOMES FOR AGING & EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESTRIDERS 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions 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 M3 Insurance 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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