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Madison Community Foundation

MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
376
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$52MEducation$16MHealth$7.2MInternational$4.4MEnvironment$3.9MHousing & Shelter$3.8MPhilanthropy$3.7MHuman Services$3.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 376 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 376 grants below total $13,648,918, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,553,217 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,904,299 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k128 grants · $935k
  • $10k–50k192 grants · $3.5M
  • $50k–250k50 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.4M
$12,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$348M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$1,980,004
AFRICA6000 INTERNATIONAL$1,000,000
SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY$500,000
SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY$354,200
MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION$275,000
MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$250,000
MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$248,572
WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$220,756
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$211,373
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY$209,845
WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$201,456
WISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY$180,000
MADISON OPERA INC$154,434
MADISON COLLEGE$150,000
SOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY$127,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $5.7M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP: $28k → 10%THE RHYTHMIC ARTS PROJECT INC: $25k → 14%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS INC: $50k → 10%THE RHYTHMIC ARTS PROJECT INC: $25k → 14%WORK OPPORTUNITY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES INC: $50k → 10%FELICIA'S DONATION CLOSET: $75k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $30k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $60k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $58k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $53k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $51k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 10%FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS TOGETHER: $50k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $47k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $43k → 10%FORWARD LEARNING YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS: $40k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $34k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $28k → 10%HHU XTRA CARE INC: $50k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC: $40k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $1.2M → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $110k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $107k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $104k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $97k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $95k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $93k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $30k → 10%UNIVERSITY AVENUE DAYCARE INC: $50k → 10%DEERFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $35k → 10%WIL-MAR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $426k → 10%DOYENNE GROUP INC: $50k → 10%100STATE INC: $50k → 10%YMCA OF DANE COUNTY INC: $50k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $100k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $50k → 10%MOBILITY TRAINING AND INDEPENDENT LIVING PROGRAM: $50k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $50k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $50k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $48k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $40k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $30k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $29k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $28k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $25k → 10%REACH-A-CHILD: $35k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

AK
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$98M · 282 repeat orgs$7.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

282 repeat relationships: 166 still active in FY2024, 116 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

282
191

Total granted

$98M
$6.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+22%

Still filing today

77%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • BB
    BUILDING BRAVE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3.7M · revenue +146% · 93% of their budget
  • WI
    WORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +53%
  • WC
    WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • CC
    CITY CHURCH MADISON INC
    one grant, 2021 · $600k
  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BARABOO
    one grant, 2020 · $600k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $254k · revenue +112%
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.

1
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
2
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
3
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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4
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
5
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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6
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
7
Madison Community Cooperative

Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Education
8
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy
9
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
10
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
11
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
12
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Generations Humanitarian. 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

397 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 397 of the 522 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.

47
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
130
Early backer (in before they grew)
388/397
Grantees still filing
287/397
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC: $34,152,351 · Arts & CultureMADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INCWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $2,692,448 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INCMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,821,463 · Arts & Culture+26 more: $11,420,602 · Arts & Culture+26 moreSOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNITY: $1,677,315 · OtherSOKAOGON CHIPPEWA COMMUNIT…CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC: $1,261,626 · OtherCHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADI…CITY OF MIDDLETON: $942,874 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $924,569 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $991,966 · Other+100 more: $17,650,586 · Other+100 moreBUILDING BRAVE INC: $3,660,000 · EducationBUILDING BRAV…MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,407,999 · EducationMADISON PUBLI…MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $1,425,250 · EducationMADISON PUBLI…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,420,293 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,278,498 · EducationMADISON AREA …+12 more: $1,589,373 · Education+12 moreTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $2,060,452 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INC: $611,650 · Human ServicesWIL-MAR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $538,146 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $532,885 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $429,291 · Human ServicesLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $240,494 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC: $199,434 · Human Services+16 more: $1,315,715 · Human ServicesWORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL: $3,155,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $282,211 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL FORGIVENESS INSTITUTE INC: $204,114 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $146,906 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $138,250 · International+2 more: $141,096 · InternationalFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,148,041 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $233,502 · Community ImprovementTHE NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $155,838 · Community Improvement+3 more: $202,850 · Community ImprovementEARTHJUSTICE: $529,800 · EnvironmentALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $525,172 · EnvironmentCLEAN WISCONSIN INC: $318,643 · EnvironmentGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC: $227,542 · EnvironmentROOTED WI INC: $190,869 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EVJUE SCHOOL FOREST OF MERRILL INC: $171,747 · EnvironmentGATHERING WATERS INC: $111,000 · EnvironmentOLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $107,125 · Environment+5 more: $321,095 · Environment
Arts & Culture$50,086,864Other$23,448,936Education$11,781,413Human Services$5,928,067International$4,067,577Community Improvement$2,740,231Environment$2,502,993

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC: $34,152,351 over 6y, 84% of budgetBUILDING BRAVE INC: $3,660,000 over 3y, 93% of budgetWORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL: $3,155,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $2,692,448 over 6y, 25% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,407,999 over 6y, 27% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,148,041 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $2,060,452 over 6y, 39% of budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,821,463 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetHancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies Inc: $1,591,752 over 6y, 88% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $1,559,923 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetMADISON OPERA INC: $1,479,345 over 6y, 14% of budgetMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $1,473,092 over 6y, 16% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $1,425,250 over 6y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,420,293 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,278,498 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC: $1,261,626 over 6y, 20% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $991,966 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $924,569 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetOVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $903,013 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetTHE RAINBOW PROJECT INC: $780,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC: $748,769 over 6y, 13% of budgetFORWARD THEATER COMPANY: $682,403 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC: $611,650 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetMADISON BALLET INC: $590,276 over 6y, 14% of budgetDANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $562,406 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWIL-MAR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $538,146 over 5y, 23% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $532,885 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $529,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $525,172 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $522,653 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetWISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ARTS AND LETTERS: $493,924 over 6y, 10% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $429,291 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCOMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC: $428,150 over 6y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $427,974 over 4y, 67% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC: $400,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $341,400 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC: $338,912 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCLEAN WISCONSIN INC: $318,643 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC: $305,678 over 6y, 10% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC: $290,559 over 6y, 15% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $282,211 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC: $270,596 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $261,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $254,480 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $254,480 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH INC: $253,091 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetMIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC: $249,083 over 6y, 21% of budgetARTS & LITERATURE LABORATORY INC: $247,408 over 6y, 25% of budget
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.

  • Who funds MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BRAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLDSERVE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Hancock Center for Creative Arts Therapies Inc ↗
  • Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RAINBOW PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WIL-MAR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ARTS AND LETTERS ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMBAT BLINDNESS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗

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 Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …United Way of Dane Co…Endres Manufacturing …Trustage Foundation I…Alliant Energy Founda…The Roots and Wings F…The Oscar Rennebohm F…Green Bay Packers Fou…Veridian Foundation I…Sub-Zero Group Founda…Pleasant T Rowland Fo…
Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI242.4× affinity151 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Veridian Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc

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 Madison Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Madison Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
80report 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 522 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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