Wisconsin · Private foundation
Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 113
- Grants FY2025
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,032,886
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $82M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 88 | $9.2M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 76 | $7.3M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $3.4M | 93% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $3.5M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $4.6M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $539k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $7.9M | 67% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoffman Institute Foundation | $7,015,000 | 4 | 80% |
| Fountain Valley School of Colorado | $4,451,011 | 5 | 6% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $3,498,402 | 3 | 0% |
| One City Schools Inc | $2,790,146 | 3 | 16% |
| The Playing Field Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Taliesin Preservation Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 17% |
| The Reading League Inc | $805,400 | 1 | 10% |
| Capital City Theatre | $737,500 | 3 | 49% |
| Madison Children's Museum Inc | $716,667 | 2 | 18% |
| Centro Hispano Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc
- How much does Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc give?
- Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc reported 113 grants totaling $9,185,653 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (63%), Arts & Culture (28%), Religion (2%).
- Who are Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hoffman Institute Foundation ($7.0M), Fountain Valley School of Colorado ($4.5M), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($3.5M).
- Does Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Community Foundation, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, The Evjue Foundation Inc.
- Where is Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc based?
- Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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