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The Impermanent Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Impermanent 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.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$45kInternational$20kYouth Development$12kCommunity Improvement$10kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$10kCivil Rights$10kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$935k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC$10,000
COMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC$10,000
OREGON AREA FOOD PANTRY$10,000
WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC$10,000
BABIES & BEYOND OF WI INC$10,000
YOUTH FRONTIERS INC$2,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $10k → 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 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
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
2
NourishMKE Inc

We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…

Food & Nutrition
3
Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin

See schedule o.to build power together to create the change need for everyone in the communities to make ends meet, live with dignity, and have a voice in shaping the decisions that impaction.

Public Benefit
4
Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…

Environment
5
Wisconsin Wildlife Federation Inc

The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.

Environment
6
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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7
Renew Wisconsin Inc

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

Environment
8
Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley
Food & Nutrition
9
Law Forward Inc

To preserve fundamental democratic principles, support wisconsin's commitment to clean and open government, and promote a progressive vision through impact litigation, administrative processes and public education.

Crime & Legal
10
Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.

Civil Rights
11
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc

Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.

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12
Hearts for Families a Wisconsin Non Stock

Assistance to needy families

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oregon Area Food Pantry. 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

12 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
2/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKFORD FAMILY PLANNING FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · HealthROCKFORD FAMILY PLANNING FOUNDATION IN…WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC: $10,000 · HealthWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INCCOMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SHARES …Babies & Beyond of WI Inc: $10,000 · OtherBabies & Beyond o…SHELTER FROM THE STORM ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $1,000 · OtherUnited States Association for UNHCR: $20,000 · InternationalUnited States Ass…VOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE L…YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRON…Oregon Area Food Pantry: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWHEELS FOR WINNERS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentROOTED WI INC: $5,000 · Environment
Health$45,000Other$21,000International$20,000Human Services$12,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Youth Development$10,000Environment$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKFORD FAMILY PLANNING FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Area Food Pantry: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBabies & Beyond of WI Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWHEELS FOR WINNERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetROOTED WI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $1,000 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.

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.

The Evjue Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…United Way of Dane Co…Trustage Foundation I…Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…Baird Foundation IncGreen Bay Packers Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
The Evjue Foundation IncWI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Impermanent Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Impermanent Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    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 · 0–15%
    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 12 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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