· Private foundation
Only in Wisconsin Giving Inc
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $45,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $30,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $25,000 |
| NAMI WISCONSIN | $25,000 |
| FEED MY PEOPLE FOODBANK | $25,000 |
| MONROE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $24,375 |
| WI TROOPERS BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| MADISON AREA REHABILITATION CENTERS INC | $15,000 |
| GREEN COUNTY CHILDCARE NETWORK | $15,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF JUDA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,990 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON | $10,000 |
| NEW GLARUS AREA EMS | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
52 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 37 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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
- PHPROJECT HOME INC4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +20%
- IAICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +40%
- WLWISCONSIN LITERACY INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- WHWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +144%
- NGNew Glarus High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $31k
- IAIce Age Trail Allainceone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
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.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Courageous Journey S Backpacking Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
84 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. 84 of the 203 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Green County Family YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds New Glarus Cares Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE CLINIC AND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Paralyzed Veterans of America - Wisconsin Chapter ↗
- Who funds Mercy Dental Missions Inc ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA REHABILITATION CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CENTER 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Colony Brands Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County 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 Only in Wisconsin Giving 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.
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.
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