· Private foundation
The Catherine Zdeblick Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| WAYFORWARD RESOURCES | $10,000 |
| RIVER FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DANE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| MCPASD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THREE GAITS INC | $5,000 |
| BAYVIEW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN BADGER CAMP | $5,000 |
| MCPASD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $160k · revenue +47%
- WBWISCONSIN BADGER CAMP INC4× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +36%
- TGTHREE GAITS INC3× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -65%
EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2020 · $58k · revenue +18%- LCLUTHER COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +1%
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.
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…
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
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.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Eagle school of madison is an independent school dedicated to serving the educational needs of gifted and talented children, kindergarten through eighth grade, in the greater madison area.
Wisconsin foundation united church of christ, inc. is a catalyst for positive change in the life of the united church of christ in wisconsin; promotes a culture of generosity; and connects people across the ucc in working for a more just…
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.
Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.
Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 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.
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 ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN BADGER CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THREE GAITS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OMEGA SCHOOL 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Catherine Zdeblick Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catherine Zdeblick Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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