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Madison Rotary Foundation

The mission of the MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION is to work with the rotary club of madison to support its charitable activities, serve as a responsible steward of its resources, and ensure compliance with all regulations.

$834k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$289kRecreation & Sports$251kHousing & Shelter$247kYouth Development$209kInternational$163kHealth$134kFood & Nutrition$104kHuman Services$68kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $214,107 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $833,701 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $619,594 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT$70,887
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON$50,000
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC$40,000
ONE CITY SCHOOLS$25,000
SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC$14,110
WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS (WYSO)$14,110
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 (FY17–25, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $30k → 10%NEWBRIDGE MADISON INC: $10k → 10%NEWBRIDGE MADISON INC: $10k → 10%FORWARD LEARNING YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS: $8k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $7k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $6k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $6k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $5k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $9k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5k → 10%YMCA MADISON: $9k → 10%YMCA MADISON: $7k → 10%YMCA MADISON: $7k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $7k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $7k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $55k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $25k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $8k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $7k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON: $9k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON: $9k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON: $8k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON: $8k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON: $7k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $6k → 10%YMCA MADISON: $7k → 10%YMCA MADISON: $6k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $5k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $7k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $6k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC: $8k → 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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 28 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
21

Total granted

$1.4M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+29%

Still filing today

96%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • DF
    Days For Girls International
    2× · 2018–2019 · $129k · revenue +38%
  • OC
    ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +376%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $68k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Wisconsin Madison
    one grant, 2018 · $61k
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF MADISON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BE AN ANGEL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -100%

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
Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education
2
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
3
United Way of Dane County Inc

Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.

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4
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
5
Madison Area Care for the Homeless (Mach) Onehealth Inc

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…

Health
6
Jewish Social Services of Madison Inc

Jewish social services of madison empowers families and individuals across generations and cultures to build community and self-sufficiency, with a strong commitment to the jewish community and inspired by jewish values. we offer services…

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7
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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8
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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9
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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10
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
11
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
12
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Days for Girls International. 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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%7%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%2%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr15%15%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/52
the rest of the field
8%
344/4,078

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

46 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. 46 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT — $141,776 · OtherMADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICTBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $68,485 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY I…URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $62,825 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INCUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $61,104 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC — $56,303 · OtherWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INCACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $45,665 · OtherACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCFAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC — $29,329 · OtherSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC — $26,723 · Other+17 more — $146,095 · Other+17 moreONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesONE CITY SCHOOLS INCVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $51,938 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD C…YWCA MADISON INC — $50,768 · Human ServicesYWCA MADISON INCTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $48,815 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY…CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $42,390 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DI…DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC — $21,456 · Human ServicesDISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADIS…NEWBRIDGE MADISON INC — $20,155 · Human ServicesNEWBRIDGE MADISON INCWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $13,400 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $12,656 · Human Services+3 more — $20,310 · Human Services+3 moreFRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION — $192,547 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF MAD…URBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED — $16,308 · PhilanthropyURBAN TRIAGE I…Days For Girls International — $128,574 · InternationalDays For Gi…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $24,900 · InternationalTHE ROTARY …FRIENDS OF BE AN ANGEL INC — $9,400 · InternationalFRIENDS OF …THE PLAYING FIELD INC — $55,019 · EducationCEOS OF TOMORROW INC — $11,260 · EducationLITERACY NETWORK INC — $8,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE UW ODYSSEY PROJECT INC — $8,000 · Education100 BLACK MEN OF MADISON INC — $5,824 · EducationBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $35,163 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $32,283 · Crime & LegalPORCHLIGHT INC — $52,284 · Housing & ShelterHARBOR HOUSE MOVIN' OUT INC — $7,200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$638,305Human Services$361,888Philanthropy$208,855International$162,874Education$88,103Crime & Legal$67,446Housing & Shelter$59,484

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 budgetFRIENDS OF MADISON SCHOOL-COMMUNITY RECREATION — $192,547 over 3y, 69% of budgetDays For Girls International — $128,574 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $80,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $68,485 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $62,825 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC — $56,303 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $55,019 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC — $52,284 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $51,938 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC — $50,768 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $48,815 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $45,665 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $42,390 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $35,163 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $32,283 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC — $29,329 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC — $26,723 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $24,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC — $21,456 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEWBRIDGE MADISON INC — $20,155 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJUSTDANE — $19,546 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED — $16,308 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $14,110 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $13,446 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $13,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $12,656 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC — $11,538 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCEOS OF TOMORROW INC — $11,260 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $11,063 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BE AN ANGEL INC — $9,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UW ODYSSEY PROJECT INC — $8,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetForward Learning Youth and Young Adults Inc — $7,960 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE MOVIN' OUT INC — $7,200 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $6,950 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $6,320 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC — $5,923 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $5,850 over 1y, 0.8% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF MADISON INC — $5,824 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC — $5,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $5,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $5,397 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAINBOW PROJECT INC — $5,143 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,125 over 1y, 0.2% 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…The Evjue Foundation …United Way of Dane Co…Madison Gas and Elect…Trustage Foundation I…The Roots and Wings F…Endres Manufacturing …Green Bay Packers Fou…Ascendium Education S…The Oscar Rennebohm F…Alliant Energy Founda…Sub-Zero Group Founda…
Madison Community FoundationWI74.1× affinity34 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 · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation 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 Madison Rotary Foundation 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report 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

    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.

    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 51 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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