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The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$67M
Granted FY2024still arriving
518
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$108MEducation$36MHuman Services$15MHousing & Shelter$6.7MInternational$6.3MCrime & Legal$6.1MPhilanthropy$5.0MCivil Rights$4.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 518 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k156 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k81 grants · $1.8M
  • $50k–250k192 grants · $23M
  • $250k+89 grants · $42M
$55,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$612M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOC$2,000,000
DANE CO PARENT COUNCIL$1,500,000
ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS$1,000,000
WISCONSIN ALLIANCE INFANT MENTAL HEALTH$1,000,000
MADISON COMMUNITY FDN$1,000,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN$1,000,000
MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FDN$1,000,000
NYC HEALTH HOSPITALS$820,000
RISE WISCONSIN$800,000
HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE FDN$755,000
UNIV OF NEW MEXICO FDN$750,000
DENVER HEALTH FDN$730,000
CONTRA COSTA REGIONAL HEALTH FDN$730,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FDN$680,000
YWCA MADISON$650,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $150k → 11%ZERO TO THREE: $500k → 14%AGENA: $375k → 17%ZERO TO THREE: $250k → 14%AGENA: $340k → 17%ZERO TO THREE: $200k → 14%AGENA: $340k → 17%CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $275k → 7%ZERO TO THREE: $150k → 14%AGENA: $310k → 17%CHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $250k → 7%ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS: $350k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS: $250k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS: $150k → 14%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES: $200k → 10%CENTERING HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE: $110k → 16%WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: $175k → 10%CENTERING HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE: $100k → 16%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY INC: $100k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $300k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $250k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $175k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICE: $100k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE: $200k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE: $150k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE: $122k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE: $100k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $400k → 10%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $250k → 10%FOCUSED INTERRUPTION: $110k → 10%FOCUSED INTERRUPTION: $100k → 10%FOCUSED INTERRUPTION: $100k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $650k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $600k → 10%YWCA OF MADISON INC: $400k → 10%KIDS FORWARD: $300k → 10%KIDS FORWARD: $250k → 10%KIDS FORWARD: $200k → 10%YWCA MADISON: $150k → 10%KIDS FORWARD: $150k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO: $120k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $100k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $100k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $100k → 10%CENTRO HISPANO: $100k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $125k → 10%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $110k → 10%ANIMAL CRACKERS: $125k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
MS
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187M · 287 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

287
82

Total granted

$187M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TM
    THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +8% · 25% of their budget
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +12%
  • WISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • RO
    REACH OUT AND READ INC
    one grant, 2022 · $650k
  • HC
    Harris County Hospital District Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $390k · revenue -80%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $335k · revenue +39%
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
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
2
Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health
3
Burnett Medical Center Inc

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…

Health
4
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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5
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

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.

Health
6
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
7
Community Medical Centers Inc

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.

Health
8
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
9
Community Health Care Inc

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.

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10
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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11
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

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.

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12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

292 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. 292 of the 416 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.

23
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
65
Early backer (in before they grew)
292/292
Grantees still filing
200/292
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $8,725,000 · HealthTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $4,750,950 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INCRISE WISCONSIN INC: $3,156,000 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,150,675 · HealthContra Costa Regional Health Foundation: $2,430,400 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $2,410,000 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $2,295,400 · Health+51 more: $38,489,950 · Health+51 moreWISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $4,600,375 · OtherWISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INCDANE CO PARENT COUNCIL: $3,630,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $3,125,650 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $2,855,000 · Other+86 more: $57,081,675 · Other+86 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3,710,775 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…DANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC: $3,178,225 · EducationDANE COUNTY …UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $2,325,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $2,275,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…REACH OUT AND READ INC: $2,190,375 · EducationREACH OUT AN…MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,150,350 · EducationMADISON AREA…THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $1,280,350 · EducationTHE PLAYING …MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $988,100 · EducationWINGRA SCHOOL INC: $750,000 · Education+4 more: $1,540,350 · Education+4 moreYWCA MADISON INC: $1,850,775 · Human ServicesAGENA: $1,365,000 · Human ServicesZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $1,100,000 · Human ServicesKIDS FORWARD INC: $940,375 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $870,350 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE: $750,300 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE PLACE INC: $707,350 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $705,000 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $600,350 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE AWARE OF AMERICA: $525,000 · Human ServicesONE CITY SCHOOLS INC: $520,350 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $450,350 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INC: $445,950 · Human Services+4 more: $1,246,275 · Human ServicesMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation: $750,000 · PhilanthropyGOLDEN VALLEY HEALTH CENTERS FOUNDATION: $560,450 · PhilanthropyURBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED: $550,350 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $410,000 · PhilanthropyGIVE BACK FOUNDATION: $337,500 · PhilanthropyJPS FOUNDATION: $325,000 · PhilanthropyBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC: $870,150 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $653,300 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $617,880 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY JUSTICE INCORPORATED: $435,000 · Crime & LegalJUVENILE LAW CENTER: $415,000 · Crime & LegalEXPO of Wisconsin Inc: $360,450 · Crime & LegalWAVE EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $340,020 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $285,000 · Crime & LegalCANOPY CENTER INC: $235,000 · Crime & LegalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,301,350 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $855,350 · InternationalPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $510,600 · InternationalMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $255,350 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250,425 · International
Health$65,408,375Other$71,292,700Education$20,388,525Human Services$12,077,425Philanthropy$4,833,300Crime & Legal$4,211,800International$4,173,075

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE METROHEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $8,725,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $4,750,950 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWISCONSIN EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $4,600,375 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $3,710,775 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDANE COUNTY PARENT COUNCIL INC: $3,178,225 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetRISE WISCONSIN INC: $3,156,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,150,675 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $3,125,650 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetContra Costa Regional Health Foundation: $2,430,400 over 4y, 68% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $2,410,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $2,325,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,301,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $2,295,400 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC: $2,275,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $2,260,950 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $2,190,375 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,150,350 over 3y, 32% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,935,425 over 5y, 23% of budgetONE BROOKLYN HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1,875,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $1,865,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetYWCA MADISON INC: $1,850,775 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,825,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSEA MAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $1,750,375 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK: $1,725,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUMC FOUNDATION INC: $1,640,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $1,630,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetRiverside University Health System Foundation: $1,610,525 over 4y, 12% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $1,560,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $1,520,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC: $1,385,000 over 5y, 65% of budgetAGENA: $1,365,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,350,350 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY HEALTH: $1,315,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC: $1,280,350 over 5y, 21% of budgetJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,266,425 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,245,975 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,160,400 over 3y, 13% of budgetARC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,155,125 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,150,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION FOR VENTURA COUNTY INC: $1,105,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $1,100,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetARROWHEAD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,085,450 over 3y, 27% of budgetJUSTDANE: $1,034,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetBrockton Hospital Inc: $1,030,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $1,025,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $1,025,350 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COALITION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $1,000,700 over 3y, 2.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Evjue Foundation …Madison Community Fou…Madison Gas and Elect…Endres Manufacturing …United Way of Dane Co…Firerose Foundation I…Trustage Foundation I…The Oscar Rennebohm F…Alliant Energy Founda…Madison Rotary Founda…Otto Bremer TrustAscendium Education S…
The Evjue Foundation IncWI98× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
86report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Roots and Wings 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 416 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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