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The Pyle Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$196k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$783kEducation$252kHealth$84kPhilanthropy$60kYouth Development$12kInternational$10kEnvironment$8kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$60,000
MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$35,000
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$15,000
THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$15,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN$10,000
MADISON OPERA INC$5,000
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION$4,300
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COACHELLA VALLEY$1,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LASALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 7%LASALLE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%SMILE TRAIN: $5k → 17%THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50k → 14%ALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY: $15k → 10%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN: $10k → 17%EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LASALLE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50k → 14%UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY: $15k → 10%JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50k → 14%UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY: $15k → 10%THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15k → 14%UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY: $12k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $45k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $29k → 10%CARBONE INNOVATION FUND: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION-CARBONE CANCER: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION-GUARDING AGAINST CANCER: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION-DEMPSEY PROFESSORSHIP FUNDBOB DEMPSEY L: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION-DEMPSEY PROFESSORSHIP FUND: $10k → 10%MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC: $25k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $86k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $60k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $50k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $50k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $50k → 10%OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $35k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $16k → 10%MADISON SYMPHANY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $15k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11k → 10%MADISON SYMPHANY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 10%MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $10k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 10%MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $10k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 10%OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10k → 10%MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $10k → 10%MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10k → 10%WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

VT
WA
IL
WI
NY
IA
PA
CA
DC
OK

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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 13 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $312k · revenue +22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +39%
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $165k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • WY
    WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • CI
    CARBONE INNOVATION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • TM
    THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +151%

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.

1
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
2
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

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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 Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
5
Downtown Madison Inc

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

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6
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
7
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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10
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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11
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overture Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Desert Community Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr19%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr16%31%35–55yr19%55%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,503

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $312,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $165,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $141,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCOVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureOVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC+3 more — $45,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $196,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCON…LA SALLE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationLA SALLE UNIVERSITY+1 more — $4,300 · EducationUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $56,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE …WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $40,000 · OtherWISCONSIN YOUTH SYM…CARBONE INNOVATION FUND — $25,000 · OtherCARBONE INNOVATION …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION-CARBONE CANCER — $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCO…LASALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL — $11,000 · OtherLASALLE COLLEGE HIG…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION-GUARDING AGAINST CANCER — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION-DEMPSEY PROFESSORSHIP FUND — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION-DEMPSEY PROFESSORSHIP FUNDBOB DEMPSEY L — $10,000 · OtherALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Other+5 more — $17,500 · Other+5 moreTHE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC — $25,000 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · InternationalCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $8,000 · EnvironmentDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyMERITER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$733,000Education$215,800Other$205,000Health$25,000Youth Development$12,000International$10,000Environment$8,000Philanthropy$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $312,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $196,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $165,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $141,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetOVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $56,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON OPERA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERITER FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Fou…John J Frautschi Fami…Madison Gas and Elect…Alliant Energy Founda…Webcrafters-Frautschi…Pleasant T Rowland Fo…Steinhauer Charitable…Dan & Patti Rashke (T…The Evjue Foundation …Green Bay Packers Fou…American Endowment Fo…Terry Family Foundati…
Madison Community FoundationWI23.9× affinity9 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 · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Steinhauer Charitable Foundation · Dan & Patti Rashke (Tasc) Family Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Terry Family 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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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