How much did THE PYLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

THE PYLE FOUNDATION reported 6 grants totaling $190,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE PYLE FOUNDATION based?

THE PYLE FOUNDATION is based in WI.

THE PYLE FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE PYLE FOUNDATION

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$190k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$50k

Largest

01What you fund

0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$558kEducation$177kYouth Development$11kEnvironment$8kPhilanthropy$3kOther$260k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

capitalprofessorshiplasalle

2019

professorshiplasalle

2020

lasallemuseum

2021

dane

2022

children's

2023

valley

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k4 grants · $90k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$50,000
MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$50,000
WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$40,000
CARBONE INNOVATION FUND$25,000
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$15,000
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 18% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$847k · 14 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$847k

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+70%

Still filing today

71%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

MC
MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +192%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
5× · 2017–2023 · $162k · revenue +3%
OC
OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +58%

Funded once

MI
MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC
one grant, 2022 · $25k
MY
MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -76%
AL
ALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +70%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Opera Inc

The mission of madison opera is to produce operas of the highest artistic standards.

Arts & Culture

Madison Art Gallery

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Madison Development Corporation

To coordinate the activities of the public and private sectors so as to constructively use the resources of each to achieve greater madison and dane county wide economic growth, to provide high-quality affordable workforce housing and…

Community Improvement

Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation stewards local, charitable funds for individuals,nonprofits and businesses. as a trusted philanthropic leader, mcf aims to engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable…

Philanthropy

La Crosse Community Theatre

To honor and celebrate our rich theatrical heritage while establishing a sustainable foundation for the years to come.

Arts & Culture

Wisconsin Rapids Community Theatre

Produce theater performances for community

Arts & Culture

Ballet Midwest

Educate, instruct, and perform dance

Arts & Culture

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

Educate and serve all in northern michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

To sustain, encourage, and promote the performing arts. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

To support and advance the educational mission of the university of wisconsin oshkosh through the solicitation of contributions of gifts of monetary support, real property or other personal property from individuals, associations,…

Education

Contemporary Arts Center

To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.

Arts & Culture

Mesabi Community Orchestra

Create an opportunity to play orchestral music in NE Minn

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc and the most unlike its peers is La Salle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

11/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$558,000Other$260,000Education$176,500Youth Development$11,000Environment$8,000Philanthropy$3,000

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.

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.

Madison Community FoundationWI20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation · Dan & Patti Rashke (Tasc) · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Chicago Community Trust

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 organisation THE PYLE FOUNDATION 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391383497 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Pyle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pyle Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE PYLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Pyle Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE PYLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Pyle Foundation?

More from the funding graph