Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 36
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $3.2M | 49% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $3.2M | 56% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $2.5M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $2.8M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $2.9M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centro Hispano Inc | $1,320,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Dane County Department of Human Services | $1,257,824 | 4 | n/a |
| Urban League of Greater Madison Inc | $1,175,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Access Community Health Centers Inc | $1,051,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Edgewood University Inc | $750,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Literacy Network Inc | $600,000 | 5 | 13% |
| United Way of Dane County Inc | $568,188 | 3 | 1% |
| Dane County Parent Council Inc | $561,020 | 3 | 2% |
| Center for Black Excellence and Culture Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Briarpatch Youth Services Inc | $295,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc
- How much does The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc give?
- The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $3,153,223 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 36 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Centro Hispano Inc ($1.3M), Dane County Department of Human Services ($1.3M), Urban League of Greater Madison Inc ($1.2M).
- Does The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Community Foundation, The Evjue Foundation Inc, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc based?
- The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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