· Private foundation
Firerose Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $675k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO | $250,000 |
| WINGRA SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| WOODLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| CHENREZIG FUND INC | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WI | $10,000 |
| OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS | $10,000 |
| PRX | $10,000 |
| OREGON PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPON | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MADISON FRIENDS OF INTL STUDENTS | $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 (FY17–18, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2022, 59 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +66%- WMWoodland Montessori School Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +35% · 32% of their budget
- WSWINGRA SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $640k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- AWACLU WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- MAMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Advance the interests of wda members and the dental profession by promoting professional excellence and quality oral health care for the public.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
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.
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Forward Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodland Montessori School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 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. 65 of the 100 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 WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Woodland Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGRA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHENREZIG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YWCA MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY 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: The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Rotary Foundation · Trustage Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Oscar Rennebohm 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 Firerose 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.
- First Candle Inc — 46% of income from government
- Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
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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