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Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$159k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$71,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 43
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$88k58%
FY20247$26k14%
FY202310$28k60%
FY202233$132k24%
FY202143$194k37%
FY202042$208k26%
FY201936$179kn/a
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$257kEducation$209kFood & Nutrition$124kReligion$108kInternational$101kArts & Culture$62kHuman Services$32kYouth Development$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Wisconsin Foundation$151,50050%
Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc$65,00050%
Food for the Poor Inc$39,90130%
The River Food Pantry Inc$35,50640%
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of Milwaukee Hellenic$32,4003n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc$18,20320%
Hellenic College Inc$17,0003n/a
Americares Foundation Inc$15,00040%
Omega School Inc$12,00031%
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$12,00040%
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $151,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInt'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $39,901 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe River Food Pantry Inc: $35,506 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc: $18,203 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOmega School Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Museum of Contemporary Art Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBadger Honor Flight Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMadison Opera Inc: $6,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Fresh Start Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGio's Garden Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Area Technical College Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAP (Redeem Enrichment Academic Place): $4,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetArtis-Naples Inc: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Coletta of Wisconsin Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecurefutures Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Performing Arts Fund Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Ukraine Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWisconsin Public Radio Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Forests: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Youth Arts Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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 Electric Foundation IncWI26× affinity10 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 · Madison Community Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Terry Family Foundation Inc · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · First Business Charitable Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County 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.

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About Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc

How much does Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc give?
Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $158,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Education (19%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin Foundation ($152k), Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc ($65k), Food for the Poor Inc ($40k).
Does Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation, Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc.
Where is Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc based?
Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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

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