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Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
113
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$24MArts & Culture$11MReligion$905kYouth Development$700kEnvironment$431kFood & Nutrition$291kCommunity Improvement$213kHealth$208kOther$0
02FY2025 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $150k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $516k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+14 grants · $6.0M
$11,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL$1,032,886
MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$666,667
THE PLAYING FIELD$500,000
MADISON COLLEGE$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$500,000
TALIESIN PRESERVATION INC$500,000
FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL$364,136
ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS$350,792
ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS$323,137
ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS$280,000
ARTS & LITERATURE LABORATORY INC$250,000
MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$250,000
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER$250,000
RIVER FOOD PANTRY$250,000
ROOT TO RISE$200,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 11%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $1k → 10%FAMILIES & SCHOOLS TOGETHER INC: $100k → 10%THE SEWING MACHINE PROJECT: $1k → 10%THE SEWING MACHINE PROJECT: $1k → 10%THE SEWING MACHINE PROJECT: $1k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO: $500k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $351k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $323k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $299k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $280k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $265k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $250k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $196k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $196k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $195k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $153k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $101k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $92k → 10%ONE CITY EARLY LEARNING CENTERS: $89k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%WAY FORWARD RESOURCES: $1k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$28M · 72 repeat orgs$9.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
31

Total granted

$28M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

79%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • HI
    HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +291% · 80% of their budget
  • FV
    FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO
    5× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +9%
  • OC
    ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • OC
    ONE CITY LEARNING CENTERS
    one grant, 2024 · $2.3M
  • W
    WYSO
    one grant, 2022 · $1.2M
  • BS
    BENEDICTINE SISTERS HOLY WISDOM MONASTERY
    one grant, 2019 · $900k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc

Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
3
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
4
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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5
Madison Art Gallery
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6
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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7
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
8
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center Inc

To provide the finest collaborative environment for: supporting performing arts training and education for a diverse population of youth; nurturing youth from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, instilling life-skills…

Arts & Culture
9
Overture Development Corporation

Overture development corporation holds title to the overture center for the arts located in madison, wisconsin.

Arts & Culture
10
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
11
Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment
12
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Youth Choirs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vogel Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr13%6%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr13%1%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr15%33%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/84
the rest of the field
11%
769/7,201

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.

05the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
51/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $7,015,000 · EducationHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO — $4,451,011 · EducationFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $3,498,402 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $1,000,000 · EducationTHE PLAYING FIELD INCTHE READING LEAGUE INC — $805,400 · Education+5 more — $744,555 · EducationAMERICAN PLAYERS THEATER — $4,642,124 · OtherAMERICAN PLAYERS THEATERONE CITY LEARNING CENTERS — $2,300,000 · OtherONE CITY LEARNING CENTERSWYSO — $1,238,523 · OtherWYSOBENEDICTINE SISTERS HOLY WISDOM MONASTERY — $900,000 · OtherBENEDICTINE SISTERS HOLY WISDOM MONA…WLACC — $507,647 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - ODYSSEY PROJECT — $500,000 · OtherMADISON COLLEGE — $500,000 · Other+57 more — $1,436,947 · Other+57 moreONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $2,790,146 · Human ServicesONE CITY S…CENTRO HISPANO INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HIS…+6 more — $227,000 · Human Services+6 moreCAPITAL CITY THEATRE — $737,500 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $716,667 · Arts & CultureARTS & LITERATURE LABORATORY INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON OPERA INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $121,500 · Arts & CultureMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $105,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $92,500 · Arts & Culture+21 more — $405,350 · Arts & CultureTALIESIN PRESERVATION INC — $1,000,000 · EnvironmentALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $340,000 · EnvironmentOLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $55,000 · Environment+5 more — $35,000 · EnvironmentTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $250,000 · Food & NutritionKing Ferry Food Pantry Inc — $20,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $20,000 · Food & NutritionMADISON PUBLIC MARKET FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · Community Improvement
Education$17,514,368Other$12,025,241Human Services$3,517,146Arts & Culture$2,678,517Environment$1,430,000Food & Nutrition$290,000Community Improvement$125,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $7,015,000 over 4y, 80% of budgetFOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO — $4,451,011 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $3,498,402 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $2,790,146 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTALIESIN PRESERVATION INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE READING LEAGUE INC — $805,400 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCAPITAL CITY THEATRE — $737,500 over 3y, 49% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $716,667 over 2y, 18% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $500,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $340,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $340,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMADISON YOUTH CHOIRS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetMADISON OPERA INC — $150,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATER OF MADISON INC — $125,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC MARKET FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $121,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $105,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $103,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFamilies and Schools Together Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $92,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC — $85,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetMADISON BALLET INC — $80,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetOLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERITER FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $21,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKing Ferry Food Pantry Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTheater Bus Inc — $16,300 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetOpera for the Young Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMIDDLETON COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA — $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTEN CHIMNEYS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUNART INC — $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Madison Community Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…John J Frautschi Fami…Endres Manufacturing …United Way of Dane Co…Sub-Zero Group Founda…John W Thompson and J…Trustage Foundation I…
Madison Community FoundationWI83.8× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun · Trustage Foundation 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 Pleasant T Rowland Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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