· Private foundation
The Oscar Rennebohm 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE | $300,000 |
| MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WREN SOMPH | $200,000 |
| UW MADISON SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $191,790 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY | $135,000 |
| MTZ CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION | $125,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF NURSING | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - PRISON EDUCATION INITIATIVE | $120,000 |
| LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT | $100,000 |
| HMONG INSITUTE | $100,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON | $100,000 |
| BRAIRPATCH YOUTH SERVICES | $100,000 |
| UW-MADISON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH ALZHEIMER'S BIOMARKER LAB | $100,000 |
| ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $2.3M) 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.
41 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 18 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- CHCENTRO HISPANO INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +319%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +146%
- ACACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- MRMCKENZIE REGIONAL WORKFORCE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $375k
- ALALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- UMUW MADISON SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2019 · $250k
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.
Madison street medicine is on a mission to develop programming and services to fill gaps in access to healthcare and housing in the madison area. we envision a community where individuals experiencing housing insecurity have equitable…
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.
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.
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.
Wayforward resources, inc. brings our community together to create food and housing security through action and advocacy.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Community action partnership for madison county is an anti-poverty agency that improves the well-being and safety of children, families, and our community through a variety of programs and services.
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…
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hmong Institute Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 108 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 CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RISE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS 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 · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Rotary Foundation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Veridian 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 Oscar Rennebohm 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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