· Private foundation
Thomas S Kemp Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MADISON AUDUBON SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MACKENZIE ENVIRONMENTAL CENER OF POYNETTE | $1,000 |
| MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON | $1,000 |
| COMO PARK LUTHERN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SCHOLA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| CAMP DISCOVERY | $1,000 |
| OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
| MINNESOTA MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| REISMER RELIEF INC | $1,000 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY CASA INC | $1,000 |
| PORCHLIGHT | $1,000 |
| BANYAN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 the wisconsin woodland owners association is to conserve and enhance the private woodlands of the state through the following actions: sustainably manage our woodlands with informed management plans that utilize best…
To support charitable, plant-based scientific, and educational activities exclusively for the benefit of the minnesota landscape arboretum of the university of minnesota
Olbrich botanical society foundation is organized exclusively for charitable and education purposes within the meaning of section 501(c) (3) of the internal revenue code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. such…
Schlitz audubon nature center conserves our land's diverse habitats on lake michigan and provides meaningful experiences and environmental education for all.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship
Trees forever mission is to plant and care for trees and the environment by empowering people, building community and promoting stewardship. our philosophy has always been to involve people in projects that educate them in ways that ensure…
Midwest environmental advocates is a nonprofit law center that combines the power of law with the resolve of communities facing environmental injustice to secure and protect the rights of all people to healthy water, land, and air.
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
The madison waldorf school is an independent day school located in madison wisconsin, and a developing member of the association of waldorf schools of north america.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison and the most unlike its peers is Deforest Area Needs Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 MINNESOTA LIONS VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WISCONSIN BIRD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DEFOREST AREA NEEDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP ↗
- Who funds CAMP ODAYIN ↗
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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Veridian Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Madison Rotary Foundation · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group 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 Thomas S Kemp 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.
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.