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Madison Investments Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$121kArts & Culture$78kEmployment$72kFood & Nutrition$66kHuman Services$62kPhilanthropy$61kEducation$55kCrime & Legal$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER$10,080
THE PLAYING FIELD$10,000
CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON$10,000
HEART OF THE BRAIN$10,000
THEA'S TABLE CO THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY$9,000
GOODWILL OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN$9,000
URBAN TRIAGE$7,000
LITERACY NETWORK$7,000
STATEMENT ARTS$3,600
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$3,500
MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,500
KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC$2,500
WAYFORWARD RESOURCES$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CARENET PREGNANCY CENTER$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $57k) 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.

area typical 10%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 17%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $16k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 10%MENTORING POSITIVES: $1k → 10%CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $2k → 10%THE ROAD HOME: $500 → 10%WAUNAKEE NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION: $1k → 10%ORION FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $3k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $2k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $2k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $2k → 10%GILDA'S CLUB MADISON: $1k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%GILDA'S CLUB MADISON: $500 → 10%GILDA'S CLUB MADISON: $300 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$509k · 42 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
51

Total granted

$509k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $45k · revenue +290%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $41k · revenue +175%
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • DA
    DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +47%
  • AD
    ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -2%
  • DC
    DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2022 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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3
United Way of Dane County Inc

Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.

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4
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
5
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
6
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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7
Innovative Services Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
9
Madison Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
10
The Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
11
Wisconsin Family Ties Inc

Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…

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12
Community Care Health Plan Inc

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.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Desert Veterans of Wisconsin 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr19%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr19%11%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,450

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.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 111 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
54/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEART OF THE BRAIN — $60,000 · OtherHEART OF THE BRAINIndividual grant recipient — $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $44,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INCTHEA'S TABLE CO THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY — $41,000 · OtherTHEA'S TABLE CO THE RIVER FOOD PANTRYGOODWILL OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN — $18,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC — $17,000 · Other+66 more — $114,883 · Other+66 moreIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $23,620 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AN…DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC A…WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $9,900 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD…+7 more — $7,800 · Human Services+7 moreCOMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC — $33,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY …OPERATION FRESH START INC — $21,000 · EmploymentOPERATION …OUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC INC — $38,500 · HealthOUR LADY …WISCONSIN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND AND VISUA — $5,000 · HealthWISCONSIN…KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $2,500 · HealthWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Health+6 more — $4,750 · Health+6 moreTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $20,000 · EducationTHE PLAYI…MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationMADISON P…LITERACY NETWORK INC — $8,500 · EducationLITERACY …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $3,500 · EducationUNIVERSIT…+8 more — $7,370 · Education+8 moreSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $41,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $1,000 · Crime & LegalURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED — $7,000 · PhilanthropyEd Nebbins Foundation Inc — $4,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$340,383Human Services$57,320Employment$54,000Health$52,750Education$49,370Crime & Legal$42,000Philanthropy$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $44,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $41,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC INC — $38,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC — $33,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $23,620 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $10,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $9,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC — $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC — $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND AND VISUA — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIL AIR PATROL INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEd Nebbins Foundation Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTATEMENT ARTS INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlackhawk Ski Club — $1,850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC — $1,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBADGERBOTS ROBOTICS CORPORATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLER SCHOOL INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUKE HOUSE INC — $1,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLA CAUSA INC — $1,370 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYDM INC — $1,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMentoring Positives Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF WI INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORION FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKathy's House Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Madison Community Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …Green Bay Packers Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Endres Manufacturing …United Way of Dane Co…Trustage Foundation I…The Roots and Wings F…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Veridian Foundation I…Madison Rotary Founda…
Madison Community FoundationWI66.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · Madison Rotary 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 Madison Investments 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Adventist Development & Relief Agency International — 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Madison Investments Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Madison Investments Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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