· Public charity
The Kids Fund Inc
With the help of the capital times, the kids fund serves to pool individual contributions from hundreds of dane county residents, and then carefully evaluate grant requests from non-profit organizations, distributing those gifts to serve the needs of kids and their families in dane county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $25,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $192,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $166,800 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC | $10,000 |
| THREE GAITS INC | $9,700 |
| MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION 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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $36k) 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 +69% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- NHNeighborhood House Community Center Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +102%
- WYWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC2× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +69%
- CHCENTRO HISPANO INC2× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIPone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -11%
- JJUSTDANEone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue 0%
- RCRed Caboose Child Care Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +110%
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.
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.
Wil-mar neighborhood center is a community-directed, non-profit organization based in the williamson-marquette neighborhood concentrating on enhancing the quality of life by fostering community building and partnerships; supporting life…
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
Jewish social services of madison empowers families and individuals across generations and cultures to build community and self-sufficiency, with a strong commitment to the jewish community and inspired by jewish values. we offer services…
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
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…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee's mission is to strengthen city neighborhoods by combining and enhancing the assets of our partner agencies to improve the quality of life for urban families.
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
A community of diverse families and educators that offers quality montessori education in a nurturing environment that enriches, empowers, and inspires children to reach their potential and encourages parents to become involved with their…
Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro Hispano Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Community Stewardship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP ↗
- Who funds LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds THREE GAITS INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTDANE ↗
- Who funds Red Caboose Child Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION 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 Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Rotary Foundation · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Widen Family 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 The Kids Fund 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.