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Terry Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

3
’17
4
’18
8
’19
5
’20
6
’21
1
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$356kEducation$151kArts & Culture$86kAnimals$15kEnvironment$10kEmployment$7k
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $64,874, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,159,591 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,094,717 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC$6,000
EDGEWOOD COLLEGE INC$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION FRESH START: $7k → 10%AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $207 → 13%MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE INC: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $32k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $237k → 10%MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29k → 10%MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29k → 10%Madison Community Foundation: $23k → 10%MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $23k → 10%MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%MADISON OPERA FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 10%MADISON OPERA: $12k → 10%MADISON OPERA: $12k → 10%MADISON OPERA: $10k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9k → 10%MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $8k → 10%MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $6k → 10%WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $6k → 10%CENTER FOR RESILIENT CITIES: $10k → 10%LITERACY NETWORK INC: $7k → 10%LITERACY NETWORK INC: $6k → 10%LITERACY NETWORK INC: $6k → 10%LITERACY NETWORK INC: $5k → 10%EDGEWOOD COLLEGE INC: $6k → 10%EDGEWOOD COLLEGE INC: $6k → 10%EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 10%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 6 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +82% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$203k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+82%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentEmploymentAnimalsOther
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
    6× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue +39%
  • MO
    MADISON OPERA INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $34k · revenue +10%
  • LN
    LITERACY NETWORK INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $24k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • MO
    MADISON OPERA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +82%
  • RW
    ROOTED WI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +96%
  • MS
    MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +36%
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
Madison Symphony Orchestra Foundation Inc

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).

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2
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

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.

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3
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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4
Madison Art Gallery
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5
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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.

Education
6
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Downtown Madison Inc

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

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8
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
9
Overture Development Corporation

Overture development corporation holds title to the overture center for the arts located in madison, wisconsin.

Arts & Culture
10
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment
12
Madison Educational Assistance Fund

Meaf provides scholarships to area students for education expenses

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $356,277 · PhilanthropyMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $207 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $105,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FO…LITERACY NETWORK INC: $24,000 · EducationLITERACY NETWORK INCEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 · EducationEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INCMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationMADISON OPERA INC: $33,500 · Arts & CultureMADISON OPERA I…MADISON OPERA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON OPERA F…MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureMADISON MUSEUM …MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON SYMPHON…MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureMADISON YOUTH A…WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CHAMB…HEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC: $15,000 · AnimalsROOTED WI INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentOPERATION FRESH START INC: $7,000 · EmploymentEDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · Other
Philanthropy$356,484Education$146,000Arts & Culture$85,500Animals$15,000Environment$10,000Employment$7,000Other$5,000

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 budgetMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $356,277 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON OPERA INC: $33,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMADISON OPERA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROOTED WI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $207 over 2y, 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.

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.

Madison Community Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…Alliant Energy Founda…John J Frautschi Fami…The Evjue Foundation …Herbert H Kohl Charit…Nick and Judith Topit…Steinhauer Charitable…Lau & Bea Christensen…Green Bay Packers Fou…Pleasant T Rowland Fo…First Business Charit…
Madison Community FoundationWI30.2× affinity12 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 · 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

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 Terry Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terry Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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