· Private foundation
Sms 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $176k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HODAN CENTER | $40,000 |
| MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| RED HOOK INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD USA | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANITIES COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| YWCA MADISON | $10,000 |
| FINE ARTS WORK CENTER PROVINCETOWN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| CHIEF BLACKBIRD CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
63 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 17 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +89%
- MPMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +20%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CBCHIEF BLACKBIRD CENTER BLACK RIVER BANDone grant, 2019 · $10k
- HRHIPPS ROAD INCone grant, 2024 · $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.
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.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
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.
How this is measured
51 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. 51 of the 88 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 HODAN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Dane County Inc ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR ART INC ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds Recovery Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE MARIAN HOUSING INC DBA BETHANY APARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE 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.
Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · John W Thompson and Jane a Bartell Charitable Foun · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Hooper Corp Foundation · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sms Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sms Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
- Arts Horizons Inc: 3% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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