· Private foundation
Madison Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MADISON | $18,000 |
| ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CTR | $5,000 |
| MADISON YOUTH CHOIRS | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY SUPPORT NETWORK INC | $2,000 |
| OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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 +103% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ALALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +196%
- MYMADISON YOUTH CHOIRS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +448%
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC4× · 2018–2021 · $20k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- OFOPERATION FRESH START INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +64%
- ESEAST SIDE ALANO CLUB OF WISCONSINone grant, 2017 · $3k
- WGWEST GREEN CLUBone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
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.
Wil-mar neighborhood center is a community-directed, non-profit organization based in the williamson-marquette neighborhood concentrating on enhancing the quality of life by fostering community building and partnerships; supporting life…
Provide training and community engagement for youth and individuals with varying abilities to enhance their self-esteem and quality of life.
Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.
Monroe street arts center engages a community of learners in exploring the arts and developing the creative self
Provide training and habilitation services for developmentally disabled adults.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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.
Our mission is to provide a nurturing and challenging montessori preschool environment for children ages 18 months to 6 years old in which children explore the world and their place in it through hands-on learning experiences and positive…
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 Wisconsin Academy for Graduate Service Dogs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 12 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 ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON YOUTH CHOIRS INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ACADEMY FOR GRADUATE SERVICE DOGS 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: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Jennie H Olson Charitable Foundation · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · First Business Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Trust 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.