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Technology Education Foundation Inc

Support the advancement and education of individuals by providing information technology hardware and software to public schools, libraries, or other non-profit educational organizations with a facility for individuals to learn to use such computer equipment.

$248k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$322kHuman Services$200kYouth Development$101kHousing & Shelter$39kCommunity Improvement$32kEnvironment$30kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $109,199 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $247,578 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $138,379 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $59k
$9,455
Median grant
2
States reached
$30k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JAMES CATHOLIC SCHOOL$15,000
YWCA MADISON$14,000
SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS$10,000
BAYVIEW FOUNDATION$10,000
MONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
BRIDGE LAKE POINT WAUNONA NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$9,455
WISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY$9,044
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$7,200
DOOR OF HOPE MINISTRIRES$6,500
BADGERBOTS ROBOTICS CORPORATION$6,000
MADISON COLLEGE FOUNDATION$6,000
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$6,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%DOOR OF HOPE MINISTRIRES: $9k → 7%YWCA: $20k → 10%DOOR OF HOPE MINISTRIRES: $7k → 7%YWCA: $20k → 10%DOOR OF HOPE MINISTRIRES: $6k → 7%YWCA: $20k → 10%YWCA: $20k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 10%Vera Court Neighborhood Center: $5k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $14k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $12k → 10%YWCA Madison: $10k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $18k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO: $14k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$669k · 21 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

$669k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+28%

Still filing today

81%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • YM
    YWCA MADISON INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +31%
  • WY
    WISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +27%
  • DI
    DANEnet Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CH
    CENTRO HISPANO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +81%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • OS
    OMEGA SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -99%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

2
The Dome School

Teaching whole child using thematic curriculum, conflict resolution,self esteem, non-violent solutions to problems. bringing community sogether socially, serving nutritious meals.

3
Highland Community School Inc

A community of diverse families and educators that offers quality montessori education in a nurturing environment that enriches, empowers, and inspires children to reach their potential and encourages parents to become involved with their…

4
Wisconsin Eschool Network Inc

To partner with wisconsin school districts to provide and share online teaching and learning resources

Education
5
Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education
6
Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center Inc

Wil-mar neighborhood center is a community-directed, non-profit organization based in the williamson-marquette neighborhood concentrating on enhancing the quality of life by fostering community building and partnerships; supporting life…

Human Services
7
The Madison Waldorf School Ltd

The madison waldorf school is an independent day school located in madison wisconsin, and a developing member of the association of waldorf schools of north america.

Education
8
Wingra School Inc

In service of learning, we practice responsive and progressive education, and strive for equity. in service of the whole person, we embrace unique gifts, experiences, and relationships. in service of social justice, we foster…

Education
9
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
10
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

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.

11
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
12
Madison Teachers Inc

Madison teachers incorporated (mti) is a labor union representing teachers, substitute teachers, educational assistants, clerical/technical employees, and school security assistants who are employed by the madison metropolitan school…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Walbridge School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%7%5–10yr21%29%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr15%33%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
8%
344/4,092

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

School District of Monroe WI — $66,046 · OtherSchool District of Monroe WIWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC — $49,473 · OtherWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INCGLACIER EDGE PTO — $49,000 · OtherGLACIER EDGE PTOBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $39,298 · OtherBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INCMadison Area Technical College — $24,000 · OtherMadison Area Technical CollegeUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $20,400 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCMADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT — $16,227 · Other+13 more — $82,228 · Other+13 moreYWCA MADISON INC — $116,000 · Human ServicesYWCA MADISON INCIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $28,316 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN CO…ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $23,145 · Human ServicesONE CITY SCHOOLS INCDOOR OF HOPE REDEEMING LIVES RESTORING FAMILIES — $21,477 · Human ServicesDOOR OF HOPE REDEEMING LIVES RE…VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $20,300 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER …CENTRO HISPANO INC — $13,875 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INCSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSIMPSON S…FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS O…MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON C…Neighborhood House Community Center Inc — $20,173 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBADGERBOTS ROBOTICS CORPORATION — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $5,310 · Youth DevelopmentDANEnet Inc — $32,300 · Community ImprovementSECTOR67 INC — $8,300 · Community ImprovementEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $22,901 · EducationHORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC — $7,000 · EducationALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $29,889 · EnvironmentCHAMPIONS4KIDS INC — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$346,672Human Services$223,113Arts & Culture$65,000Youth Development$41,483Community Improvement$40,600Education$29,901Environment$29,889Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYWCA MADISON INC — $116,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC — $49,473 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $39,298 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDANEnet Inc — $32,300 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $29,889 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $28,316 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS INC — $23,145 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $22,901 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE REDEEMING LIVES RESTORING FAMILIES — $21,477 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $20,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $20,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNeighborhood House Community Center Inc — $20,173 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCHAMPIONS4KIDS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $13,875 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMEGA SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECTOR67 INC — $8,300 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAYDM INC — $7,750 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC — $7,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBADGERBOTS ROBOTICS CORPORATION — $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $5,310 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWalbridge School Inc — $1,890 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 YWCA MADISON INC
  • Who funds SIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC
  • Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC
  • Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DANEnet Inc
  • Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC
  • Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC
  • Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE REDEEMING LIVES RESTORING FAMILIES
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Community Center Inc
  • Who funds CHAMPIONS4KIDS INC
  • Who funds CENTRO HISPANO INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds OMEGA SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC
  • Who funds SECTOR67 INC
  • Who funds MAYDM INC
  • Who funds HORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC
  • Who funds BADGERBOTS ROBOTICS CORPORATION
  • Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC
  • Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds Walbridge School Inc

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.

Madison Community FoundationWI48.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Summit Credit Union · Madison Rotary Foundation

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 Technology Education 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Technology Education Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Technology Education Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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