· Public charity
Terry Family Foundation Inc
The primary exempt purpose of the terry family foundation is to receive gifts from the terry family and make grants or gifts to either or both the madison community foundation and the university of wisconsin foundation.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Terry Family Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Madison Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Terry Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $65k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $64,874 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,159,591 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,094,717 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,874 |
| MADISON OPERA | $12,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC | $8,500 |
| LITERACY NETWORK INC | $7,000 |
| EDGEWOOD COLLEGE INC | $6,000 |
| WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue +39%
- MOMADISON OPERA INC3× · 2019–2021 · $34k · revenue +10%
- LNLITERACY NETWORK INC4× · 2018–2021 · $24k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- MOMADISON OPERA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +82%
- RWROOTED WI INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +96%
- MSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The foundation was established to administer investments, and to receive support in the form of gifts, grants, and bequests which exclusively benefit the madison symphony orchestra, inc., an organization described in i.r.c. section 509(a).
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
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.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Overture development corporation holds title to the overture center for the arts located in madison, wisconsin.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.
Meaf provides scholarships to area students for education expenses
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Edgewood University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED WI INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Nick and Judith Topitzes Family Foundation Inc · Steinhauer Charitable Foundation · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · First Business Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Terry Family 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.
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.