How much did MADISON INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of MADISON INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

veteranscorporation

2020

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2021

—

2022

food

2023

greatersymphony orchestra

2024

socialbelievehealthcareadultseducatorsliveshousing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$431k

Total assets

Largest grants

GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER$10,080
HEART OF THE BRAIN$10,000
THE PLAYING FIELD$10,000
CHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON$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
KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC$2,500
MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,500
WAYFORWARD RESOURCES$2,000
ASSET BUILDERS$2,000
OUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC$1,500

02The need

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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$506k · 42 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

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

Total granted

$506k

$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+113%

Still filing today

52%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalOther

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

SH
SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER
5× · 2019–2023 · $41k · revenue +123%
OL
OUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC
6× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +191%
CW
COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC
4× · 2019–2022 · $33k · revenue +49%

Funded once

DA
DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue +76%
AD
ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONALgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +117%
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.

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides day services and employment services including job development, training, and day-to-day support to consumers with developmental disabilities.

Human Services

Wausau Child Care Inc

Strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.

Human Services

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Employ Milwaukee Inc

Build a strong workforce development system to ensure a skilled and productive workforce.

Employment

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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Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (innovative care services) is made up of over 350 caring team members serving people with disabilities throughout wisconsin. innovative provides community supported living, residential care, and mental health care…

Human Services

Dane County Parent Council Inc

To change the lives of children and families through education and supportive services.

Education

Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension

To provide targeted consulting services to small and medium manufacturers within our service territory in wisconsin.

Education

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

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Inc

Nonpartisan political watchdog group dedicated to clean government that advocates for a real democracy that allows the common good to prevail over narrow interests.

Health

Cap Services Inc

Transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Playing Field Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Circle. 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 29 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/62

the rest of the field

10%

2,111/20,259

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.

05the grantee network

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/62

Grantees still filing

53/62

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$379,703Employment$54,000Health$51,750Crime & Legal$42,000Education$38,370Human Services$30,400Arts & Culture$12,100

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.

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 FoundationWI56.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Madison Rotary Foundation · Veridian Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 262798256 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OUR LADY OF HOPE CLINIC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Madison Investments Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Madison Investments Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MADISON INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Madison Investments Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

MADISON INVESTMENTS FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

62 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Madison Investments Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph