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The Wisconsin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$247k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$231k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$237kPublic Benefit$46kEnvironment$26kEducation$13kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$4kSocial Science$3kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $231k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF WESTPORT$231,195
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$10,000
UW FOUNDATION$5,000
FOND BLANC FOUNDATION$500
DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST$500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 10%EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 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.

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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17k · 3 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$17k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +21%
  • EM
    EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +23%
  • FB
    FOND BLANC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +3%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -8%

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
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
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.

4
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges

The association of governing boards of universities and colleges advances higher education as a public good by preparing college, university, and foundation governing boards to fulfill their fiduciary duties and exemplify the highest…

Education
5
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…

Education
6
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
7
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

8
Financial Planning Association

To elevate the profession that transforms lives through the power of financial planning.

Community Improvement
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…

10
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
11
Wisconsin Principles Inc

Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…

Civil Rights
12
The Greater Beloit Economic Development Corporation

The mission of the greater beloit economic development corporation ("corporation") is to foster investment and job growth in the economy thereby improving the quality of life, educational attainment, housing availability and prosperity for…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 25 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOWN OF WESTPORT — $231,195 · OtherTOWN OF WESTPORTIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYoung America's Foundation — $10,000 · Other+10 more — $7,819 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC — $25,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FO…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $11,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…+2 more — $1,868 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC — $20,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC — $5,001 · Recreation & SportsEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesFOND BLANC FOUNDATION — $1,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyBADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED — $800 · Youth DevelopmentDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF PHEASANT BRANCH CONSERVANCY INC — $150 · Environment
Other$274,014Education$37,868Public Benefit$20,000Recreation & Sports$5,001Human Services$4,000Philanthropy$2,500Youth Development$800Environment$650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOND BLANC FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIER'S EDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $868 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PHEASANT BRANCH CONSERVANCY INC — $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $100 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.

Dwight and Linda Davis FoundationWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Wisconsin 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Wisconsin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Wisconsin Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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