· Private foundation
Silver Lining Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $226k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REACH DANE - RED ARROW | $83,000 |
| STARTINGBLOCK MADISON INC | $75,000 |
| TODAY NOT TOMORROW | $68,268 |
| COLLABORATIVE 523 INC | $41,700 |
| LAKE RIPLEY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT | $19,000 |
| ROOTED | $15,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE ARTS COUNCIL INC | $12,500 |
| ALDO LEOPOLD SCHOOL PARENT FACULTY | $9,200 |
| NORTHPORT COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER | $9,048 |
| THREE GAITS INC | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY PTO | $2,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC | $2,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WRWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC5× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +74%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +43%
- CHCAMBRIDGE HISTORIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIO3× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +715%
Funded once
- LJLITTLE JOHN'S RESTAURANT INCone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -76%
- SISECTOR67 INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +40%
- CACABRIDGE ARTS COMMITTEEone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
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.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Support, promote, and facilitate partnerships with and provide funding for innovative early-stage and startup companies to lessen the burdens of government by promoting economic development and creating sustaining jobs in wisconsin.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
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.
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…
Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 82 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds STARTINGBLOCK MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE JOHN'S RESTAURANT INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED WI INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE HISTORIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds SECTOR67 INC ↗
- Who funds THREE GAITS INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST SIDE SHERMAN YOUTH BASKETBALL ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSCOUNSEL INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MELLOWHOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Silver Lining Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silver Lining Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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