Wisconsin · Private foundation
Townsend Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Townsend Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $76k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $61k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $73k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $68k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $78k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $71k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vision Forward Association Incorporated | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc | $14,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Next Door Foundation Inc | $14,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Lake Area Free Clinic Inc | $14,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Hope Center Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Above the Clouds Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Restoring Lands Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Mequon Nature Preserve Inc | $10,080 | 5 | 0% |
| Life's Connection Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($156k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Townsend Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Townsend Foundation Inc
- How much does Townsend Foundation Inc give?
- Townsend Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $76,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Townsend Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Townsend Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Vision Forward Association Incorporated ($20k), Wisconsin Ovarian Cancer Alliance Inc ($15k), Next Door Foundation Inc ($15k).
- Does Townsend Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Townsend Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Townsend Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is Townsend Foundation Inc based?
- Townsend Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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