· Private foundation
The Wahlin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $287k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT ANN CATHOLIC PARISH | $286,750 |
| INNOVATION CENTER STOUGHTON | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WMC FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| STOUGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - WHITEWHATER | $5,000 |
| BADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC | $2,500 |
| SHALOM HOLISTIC HEALTH-NEIGHBORHOOD FREE CLINIC | $2,500 |
| MADISON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| STOUGHTON AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- SHStoughton Hospital Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $281k · revenue +239%
- MCMANDT COMMUNITY CENTERINC6× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +27% · 31% of their budget
- WFWMC FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- COCITY OF EVANSVILLEone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SASTOUGHTON AREA SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2021 · $50k
- JOJAYCEES OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
The mission of Stoughton Hospital is to provide safe, quality health care with exceptional personalized service.
Raise funds via donations and a charity golf outing with the net proceeds being donated to medical related non profit organizations in the stoughton area
To hold an agricultural and horticultural fair to encourage the development of better agricultural and horticultural produce through awards.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overture Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stoughton Conservation Club Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 111 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
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 Stoughton Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MANDT COMMUNITY CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds STOUGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION CENTER STOUGHTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Inc ↗
- Who funds BADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds STOUGHTON ROTARY SPECIAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STOUGHTON VILLAGE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds STOUGHTON OPERA HOUSE FRIENDS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OVERTURE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arts for All Wisconsin 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Stoughton Community Foundation Inc · Wps Charitable Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Wahlin 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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.