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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.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Recreation & Sports$55kYouth Development$42kHuman Services$23kReligion$18kCommunity Improvement$15kEnvironment$6kEducation$6kHealth$6k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $24,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $196,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $172,000 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.
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC$6,500
VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC$6,500
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$6,000
MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC$5,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) 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.

area typical 7%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $7k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $6k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $8k → 10%LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $7k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $10k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $6k → 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$146k · 8 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$146k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentReligionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NH
    Neighborhood House Community Center Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +102%
  • WY
    WISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +69%
  • CH
    CENTRO HISPANO INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -11%
  • TG
    THREE GAITS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • J
    JUSTDANE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue 0%
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 Community Cooperative

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.

Education
2
Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education
3
Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Jewish Social Services of Madison Inc

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…

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5
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

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.

Employment
6
Downtown Madison Inc

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

—
7
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
8
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
9
Ywca Madison Inc

Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
10
East Side Business Improvement Dist

Building a coalition to create Milwaukee most dynamic neighborhood.

Community Improvement
11
Highland Community School Inc

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…

—
12
Neighborhood Housing Services of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro Hispano Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRO HISPANO INC: $15,552 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INCLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $14,281 · Human ServicesLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCAT…VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD …WISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC: $17,000 · OtherWISCONSIN YOUTH COMP…FAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC: $11,500 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE MADIS…Red Caboose Child Care Center Inc: $6,000 · OtherRed Caboose Child Ca…MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $33,350 · Public BenefitMADISON PARKS FOUND…Neighborhood House Community Center Inc: $29,500 · Youth DevelopmentNeighborhood Hous…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $14,500 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMM…KENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $12,450 · Community ImprovementKENNEDY HEIGHTS…JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $10,000 · ReligionJEWISH FED…JUSTDANE: $7,500 · ReligionJUSTDANETHREE GAITS INC: $9,700 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$42,333Other$34,500Public Benefit$33,350Youth Development$29,500Community Improvement$26,950Religion$17,500Recreation & Sports$9,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $33,350 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNeighborhood House Community Center Inc: $29,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetWISCONSIN YOUTH COMPANY INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC: $15,552 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP: $14,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC: $14,281 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $12,450 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE MADISON INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHREE GAITS INC: $9,700 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJUSTDANE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRed Caboose Child Care Center Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Gas and Elect…The Evjue Foundation …United Way of Dane Co…Madison Community Fou…Endres Manufacturing …Alliant Energy Founda…Trustage Foundation I…The Roots and Wings F…Green Bay Packers Fou…Madison Rotary Founda…The Oscar Rennebohm F…Widen Family Foundati…
Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kids Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kids Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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