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Split Rail Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$103kEnvironment$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kPublic Benefit$3kArts & Culture$2kRecreation & Sports$2kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$279k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$12,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL$2,000
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$500
STARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT$500
FOREST HOME HISTORICAL PRESERVATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%US Luge Association: $500 → 13%GOOD EARTH LEARNING CENTER: $500 → 12%LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $2k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%FERRYVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN WISCONSIN: $4k → 11%FOREST HOME HISTORICAL PRESERVATION: $500 → 17%PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEARCH: $5k → 8%LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%FERRYVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 11%FOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500 → 17%PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEARCH: $3k → 8%Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc: $500 → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%FERRYVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2k → 11%FOREST HOME HISTORICAL PRESERVATION: $500 → 17%PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEARCH: $3k → 8%Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc: $500 → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $13k → 10%Ferryville Volunteer Fire Departmnt: $1k → 11%Forest Home Historic Preservation: $500 → 17%Pacific Northwest Search Rescue: $2k → 8%Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc: $500 → 6%University of Wisconsin Foundation: $10k → 10%FERRYVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN WISCONSIN: $1k → 11%FOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $500 → 17%PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEARCH & RESCUE: $1k → 8%University of Wisconsin Foundation: $10k → 10%Forest Home Historic Preservation: $500 → 17%Pacific Northwest Search Rescue: $1k → 8%University of Wisconsin Foundation: $10k → 10%Acts Community Development Corp: $500 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%Milwaukee School of Engineering: $1k → 17%MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $750 → 17%MSOE: $750 → 17%MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $750 → 17%MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $750 → 17%MSOE: $750 → 17%MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $500 → 17%MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $500 → 17%MUHS JR HILLTOPERS: $3k → 17%Urban Ecology Center: $9k → 17%Urban Ecology Center: $8k → 17%Urban Ecology Center: $6k → 17%URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER: $4k → 17%URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER: $4k → 17%ST MARCUS SCHOOL: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$164k · 15 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$164k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+18%

Still filing today

33%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +39%
  • URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +113%
  • MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
    6× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • SM
    ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • FV
    Ferryville Volunteer Fire Departmnt
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Uso Wisconsin Inc

To support members of the military and their families

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2
University Research Park Incorporated

The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.

Education
3
Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association

To advance the real estate and urban land economics program at the university of wisconsin - madison.

Community Improvement
4
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
5
United Way for Southeastern Michigan

To mobilize the caring power of detroit and southeastern michigan to improve communities and individual lives in measurable and lasting ways.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
7
University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc

An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…

Education
8
Milwaukee Development Corporation

-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…

Community Improvement
9
United States Ski Association

United States Ski Association is the national governing body overseeing the sports of Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding in the United States. See Schedule O for continuation.

Recreation & Sports
10
Life Science Washington

Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…

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11
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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12
Uw-Madison Supporting Organization Inc

Uw-madison supporting organization, inc. is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes and for the beneift of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Ecology Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $94,900 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $4,250 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…FERRYVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN WISCONSIN: $4,500 · OtherFERRYVILLE FIRE DEPARTME…Individual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…Pacific Northwest Search Rescue: $3,000 · OtherPacific Northwest Search…LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $3,000 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC S…Individual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…MSOE: $1,500 · OtherRonald McDonald House Charities: $1,500 · Other+7 more: $6,000 · Other+7 moreURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentSTARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC: $3,000 · Public BenefitPACIFIC NORTHWEST SEARCH AND RESCUE INC: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Education$99,150Other$36,500Environment$31,000Public Benefit$3,000Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Housing & Shelter$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $94,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES LUGE ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
  • Who funds STARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEARCH AND RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES LUGE ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Split Rail Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Split Rail Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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