· Private foundation
Randy and Nancy Trachte Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| NECANICUM WATERSHED COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| THE X FOR BOYS | $25,000 |
| PORCHLIGHT INC | $20,000 |
| WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PHEASANT BRANCH CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| BLACKHAWK CHURCH | $8,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN | $8,000 |
| MADISON CAT PROJECT | $5,000 |
| DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- FAFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $203k · revenue +7%
- WRWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +85%
WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC4× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- CCClatsop Community Actiongraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +65%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- LCLIFE CHURCHone 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.
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
Gathering waters (wisconsin's alliance for land trusts) strengthens land trusts to protect wisconsin's special places and grow healthy, vibrant communities. the stronger the alliance between gathering waters' staff and board members, land…
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
The natural resource development association supports policies that lead to proper, necessary, and conscientious resource development and conservation. by engaging community leaders, laborers, manufacturers, and job creators in the…
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.
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.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dane County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Necanicum Watershed Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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
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 FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PHEASANT BRANCH CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Clatsop Community Action ↗
- Who funds North Coast Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds NECANICUM WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MADISON CAT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Randy and Nancy Trachte Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Necanicum Watershed Council — 100% of income from government
- Clatsop Community Action — 26% of income from government
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
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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