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The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$5.4MHealth$2.8MHuman Services$2.6MYouth Development$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.3MArts & Culture$1.2MCivil Rights$1.2MEmployment$825kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY$300,000
CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE$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
ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH$100,000
BRAIRPATCH YOUTH SERVICES$100,000
UW-MADISON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH ALZHEIMER'S BIOMARKER LAB$100,000
LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT$100,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON$100,000
HMONG INSITUTE$100,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS: $125k → 10%AGEBETTER: $75k → 10%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS: $50k → 10%NEWBRIDGE MADISON: $86k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $55k → 10%MENTORING POSITIVES: $50k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $35k → 10%VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE: $25k → 10%FOCUSED INTERRUPTION: $4k → 10%BAYVIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $15k → 10%ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $15k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $125k → 10%SOLACE FRIENDS INC: $100k → 10%YMCA OF DANE COUNTY: $83k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $3k → 10%SOLACE FRIENDS INC: $2k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $285k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $250k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $200k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $200k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $150k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $135k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO OF DANE COUNTY: $100k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF MADISON: $75k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF MADISON: $40k → 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 41 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
48

Total granted

$14M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+7%

Still filing today

66%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEmploymentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CH
    CENTRO HISPANO INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +319%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +146%
  • AC
    ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • MR
    MCKENZIE REGIONAL WORKFORCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $375k
  • UM
    UW MADISON SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • US
    UW SCHOOL OF NURSING - WORKFORCE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
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
Madison Area Care for the Homeless (Mach) Onehealth Inc

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…

Health
3
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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4
Madison Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
5
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

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.

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6
Wayforward Resources Inc

Wayforward resources, inc. brings our community together to create food and housing security through action and advocacy.

Human Services
7
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
8
Downtown Madison Inc

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

—
9
Community Care Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
10
Community Action Program for Madison County Inc

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.

—
11
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
12
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
28/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DANE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES: $1,257,824 · OtherDANE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICESURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC: $1,175,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INCACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $1,051,000 · OtherACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCDANE WORKFORCE HOUSING FUND LLC: $679,936 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $568,188 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $510,000 · Other+70 more: $7,888,116 · Other+70 moreCENTRO HISPANO INC: $1,320,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO…Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens: $175,000 · Human ServicesMadison Area F…YWCA MADISON INC: $128,000 · Human ServicesMTZ Charitable Organization Inc: $125,100 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $115,000 · Human ServicesSolace Friends Inc: $101,600 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $90,150 · Human ServicesNEWBRIDGE MADISON INC: $86,293 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Dane County Inc: $83,333 · Human Services+7 more: $234,000 · Human Services+7 moreEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $750,000 · EducationEDGEWOOD UNIV…LITERACY NETWORK INC: $600,000 · EducationLITERACY NETW…DANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC: $561,020 · EducationDANE COUNTY P…MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 · EducationMADISON AREA …THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $100,000 · EducationCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureRISE WISCONSIN INC: $150,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC: $130,000 · HealthJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $110,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC: $295,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC: $150,000 · Food & NutritionTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$13,130,064Human Services$2,458,476Education$2,281,020Arts & Culture$760,000Health$400,000Crime & Legal$310,000Food & Nutrition$300,000

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 budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC: $1,320,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC: $1,175,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $1,051,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $750,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC: $600,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $568,188 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC: $561,020 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC: $500,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC: $295,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $200,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $192,100 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $191,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $190,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetMadison Area Food Pantry Gardens: $175,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC: $130,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC: $128,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMTZ Charitable Organization Inc: $125,100 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOMEGA SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $115,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSolace Friends Inc: $101,600 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $90,150 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNEWBRIDGE MADISON INC: $86,293 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPROJECT HOME INC: $73,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSIMPSON STREET FREE PRESS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMentoring Positives Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMadison Area CLT Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAFRICAN CENTER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSUNSHINE PLACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOUSING INITIATIVES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC: $4,700 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 MADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RISE WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC ↗

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 Community Fou…The Evjue Foundation …Madison Gas and Elect…United Way of Dane Co…Endres Manufacturing …The Roots and Wings F…Trustage Foundation I…Alliant Energy Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Madison Rotary Founda…Ascendium Education S…Veridian Foundation I…
Madison Community FoundationWI95.5× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 108 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-PF 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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