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Purple Moon Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of PURPLE MOON FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,758
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALE LEIBOWITZ LEGACY FOUNDATION$3,758
02Your 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.

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Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
2
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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3
League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Inc

The league of women voters of wisconsin (lwvwi) is a nonpartisan political organization. we encourage informed, active participation in government and work to increase understanding of major public policy issues. we influence public policy…

Civil Rights
4
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

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.

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5
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
6
Downtown Madison Inc

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

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7
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.

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8
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

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.

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9
Southern Lakes Credit Union

We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.

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10
Madison Teachers Inc

Madison teachers incorporated (mti) is a labor union representing teachers, substitute teachers, educational assistants, clerical/technical employees, and school security assistants who are employed by the madison metropolitan school…

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11
Wisconsin Medical Credit Union

Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…

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Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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

03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 27 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
17/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Goodman, Irwin A and Robert D Community Center Inc — $500,000 · OtherGoodman, Irwin A and Robert D Community Center IncWisconsin Historical Museum — $100,000 · OtherWisconsin Historical MuseumCenter for Families, Inc — $75,000 · OtherCenter for Families, Inc+10 more — $82,258 · Other+10 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $73,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…+3 more — $6,000 · Education+3 moreWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMercury Players Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $5,000 · Human ServicesEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC — $5,000 · ReligionCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentRAPE CRISIS CENTER INC — $1,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 · HealthSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$757,258Education$79,000Arts & Culture$55,000Human Services$6,000Religion$5,000Environment$2,500Health$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $73,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS WINTER SPORTS CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEND DOMESTIC ABUSE WISCONSIN THE WI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOMEGA SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RAINBOW PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Community Centers of Chicago — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES OF MADISON INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGRA SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAPE CRISIS CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 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…Alliant Energy Founda…Trustage Foundation I…The Evjue Foundation …United Way of Dane Co…Prl Keystone Foundati…Sheldon L and Pearl R…John J Frautschi Fami…Webcrafters-Frautschi…The Oscar Rennebohm F…Sub-Zero Group Founda…
Madison Community FoundationWI28.1× affinity11 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 · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Prl Keystone Foundation Inc · Sheldon L and Pearl R Leibowitz Dale Leibowitz Legacy Foundation · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group 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.

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How do I get to Purple Moon Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Purple Moon 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 27 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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