· Private foundation
The Catherine Zdeblick Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DANE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| WAYFORWARD RESOURCES | $10,000 |
| RIVER FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| BAYVIEW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN BADGER CAMP | $5,000 |
| MCPASD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MCPASD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THREE GAITS INC | $5,000 |
| CLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
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.
Your 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 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 +47% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One City Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Luther College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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 ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY 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 ↗
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 · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Daniel W Erdman Foundation Inc · Cremer Foundation · Technology Education Foundation Inc · Summit Credit Union
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 The Catherine Zdeblick 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.
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