· Private foundation
The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k156 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k192 grants · $23M
- $250k+89 grants · $42M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOC | $2,000,000 |
| DANE CO PARENT COUNCIL | $1,500,000 |
| MADISON COMMUNITY FDN | $1,000,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN | $1,000,000 |
| MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FDN | $1,000,000 |
| WISCONSIN ALLIANCE INFANT MENTAL HEALTH | $1,000,000 |
| ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $1,000,000 |
| NYC HEALTH HOSPITALS | $820,000 |
| RISE WISCONSIN | $800,000 |
| HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE FDN | $755,000 |
| UNIV OF NEW MEXICO FDN | $750,000 |
| CONTRA COSTA REGIONAL HEALTH FDN | $730,000 |
| DENVER HEALTH FDN | $730,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FDN | $680,000 |
| REACH OUT & READ | $650,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $13.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
287 repeat relationships — 249 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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
- TMTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +8% · 25% of their budget
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +19%
WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ROREACH OUT AND READ INCone grant, 2022 · $650k
- HCHarris County Hospital District Foundationone grant, 2022 · $390k · revenue -80%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $335k · revenue +39%
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.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
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 health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beam Up Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
292 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. 292 of the 416 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RISE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE BROOKLYN HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Riverside University Health System Foundation ↗
- Who funds Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGENA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION 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: The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Firerose Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Rotary Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ascendium Education Solutions 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 Roots and Wings 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.
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
- The Wallace Medical Concern — 27% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Brockton Hospital Inc — 13% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Neighborhood Health Center — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sky Lakes Medical Center — 2% of income from government
- Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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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