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Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi

Second harvest foodbank exists to end hunger in southwestern wisconsin.

$44M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$11,389
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,931
Organizations funded a year
5 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentMembership BenefitHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$50k0%
FY20245$71k20%
FY202322$292k77%
FY20228$255k63%
FY20217$216k0%
FY202011$332k9%
FY201911$344k0%
FY201811$329k0%
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What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$1.6MHuman Services$381kYouth Development$98kCommunity Improvement$27kReligion$19kMembership Benefit$14kEducation$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc$385,00050%
Food Bank of Iowa$365,00070%
River Bend Food Reservoir$185,00050%
Northeast Iowa Food Bank$180,00050%
Lussier Community Education Center Inc$110,03782%
Vera Court Neighborhood Center Inc$109,74191%
Kennedy Heights Neighborhood Association Inc$84,769413%
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc$80,50050%
Hmong Institute Incorporated$75,00037%
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc$65,89530%
Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc$62,41280%
Reap Food Group Inc$61,44119%
The River Food Pantry Inc$60,00030%
Badger Prairie Needs Network Inc$50,00031%
Salvation Army Milwaukee County$44,8806n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of West Central Wis$32,33241%
Food Banks for the Heartland$30,0005n/a
District Council of Madison Inc$15,00030%
Deerfield Community Center Inc$15,00031%
Extended Hands Pantry Inc$15,00031%
Couleecap Inc$13,63730%
Necedah Area School District$10,5001n/a
Central Wisconsin Community Action Council Inc$10,50030%
Feedmore Western New York Inc$10,00010%
Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church$9,9033n/a
Sun Prairie Emergency Food Pantry Inc$9,4203n/a
International Pentecostal Holiness Church - Hope Fellowship$8,6171n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison Inc$8,12930%
Groundswell Conservancy Inc$7,80010%
The Salvation Army$7,4283n/a
Bayview Foundation Inc$7,07130%
Neighbor for Neighbor Inc$6,99831%
East Madison Community Center Inc$6,50021%
Sauk Prairie Area Food Pantry Inc$5,89833%
Caritas Inc$5,00431%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc: $385,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFood Bank of Iowa: $365,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRiver Bend Food Reservoir: $185,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNortheast Iowa Food Bank: $180,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLussier Community Education Center Inc: $110,037 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetVera Court Neighborhood Center Inc: $109,741 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetKennedy Heights Neighborhood Association Inc: $84,769 over 4y, 13% of budgetFeeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc: $80,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHmong Institute Incorporated: $75,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc: $65,895 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIrwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc: $62,412 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetReap Food Group Inc: $61,441 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetThe River Food Pantry Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBadger Prairie Needs Network Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of West Central Wis: $32,332 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDistrict Council of Madison Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDeerfield Community Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetExtended Hands Pantry Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCouleecap Inc: $13,637 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Wisconsin Community Action Council Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeedmore Western New York Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Madison Inc: $8,129 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGroundswell Conservancy Inc: $7,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBayview Foundation Inc: $7,071 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNeighbor for Neighbor Inc: $6,998 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEast Madison Community Center Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSauk Prairie Area Food Pantry Inc: $5,898 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCaritas Inc: $5,004 over 3y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI74.9× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Endres Manufacturing 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.

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About Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi

How much does Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi give?
Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi reported 4 itemized grants totaling $49,766, out of $43,730,496 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (73%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc ($385k), Food Bank of Iowa ($365k), River Bend Food Reservoir ($185k).
Does Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, United Way of Dane County Inc, Madison Community Foundation.
Where is Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi based?
Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi is based in WI.

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 35 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 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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