· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Paypal Charitable Giving Fund | $71,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $50,000 |
| Hellenic College Holy Cross | $7,000 |
| International Orthodox Christian Charities | $5,000 |
| Assumption Church | $5,000 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Madison | $4,000 |
| St Coletta of Wisconsin | $3,000 |
| Friends of PBS Wisconsin | $3,000 |
| Hope for Ukraine | $3,000 |
| Ss Cyril & Methodius Orthodox Church | $3,000 |
| St Katherine's Greek Orthodox Church | $2,500 |
| Special Olympics of WI | $1,000 |
| American Forests | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +21%
INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC5× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +17%- TRTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC4× · 2019–2022 · $36k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- FFFood for the Poorone grant, 2020 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OMEGA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GIO'S GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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