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Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$500,000
MADISON COLLEGE$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
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER$250,000
RIVER FOOD PANTRY$250,000
MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$250,000
ARTS & LITERATURE LABORATORY INC$250,000
ROOT TO RISE$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $1k → 10%WAY FORWARD RESOURCES: $1k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 19% of Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

+15%
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
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.

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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Youth Choirs Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
50/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherMADISON COLLEGE: $500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - ODYSSEY PROJECT: $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 & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $20,000 · Food & NutritionKing Ferry Food Pantry Inc: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 OPERA INC: $150,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMADISON YOUTH CHOIRS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 6.8% 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 budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFamilies and Schools Together Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN 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 budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetOLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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 budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKing Ferry Food Pantry Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% 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 budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetTEN CHIMNEYS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLUNART INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArts for All Wisconsin Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 123 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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