· Private foundation
Townsend 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISION FORWARD ASSOC | $5,000 |
| WI OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC | $3,400 |
| MENOMONEE FALLS SCHOLARSHIP AND ED | $3,000 |
| RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER | $2,500 |
| SHEPHERDS COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| HEPHATHA LUTHERAN CHURCH MILWAUKEE | $2,500 |
| MEQUON NATURE PRESERVE | $2,500 |
| WI LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERV | $2,500 |
| FROEDTERT MENOMONEE FALLS FNDN | $2,500 |
| RESERVATION OUTREACH | $2,500 |
| MILWAUKEE REP THEATER | $2,500 |
| RESTORING LANDS A WI LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| MILLER ART MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| CIVIC MUSIC ASSOC OF MILW | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% 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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 13 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
WISCONSIN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +7%
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +86%- HCHope Center Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- CLCONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $4k
- NNNATH NORTHWOOD ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
Operation of childcare centers based on the waldorf teaching method. nurturing children, families, caregivers and communities. lifeways welcomes children and families of any race, religion,
Provide training and informational materials to families of children and youth with disabilities to enable them to understand and use the supports and services provided by private and public health care and community systems.
Making the arts accessible to all
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Enriching the lives of children with physical or developmental special needs and their families.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
The mission of the milwaukee women's center, inc. is to provide innovative, culturally competent holistic care that will empower men, women, and children to live safe, independent, and healthy lives.
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eras Senior Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feast of Crispian. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. 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 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 97 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 VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARBURG CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LEAD2CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ABLELIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Hope & Love Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUR CHOICE TO LIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SPINA BIFIDA WISCONSIN LTD ↗
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: 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
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 Townsend 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.
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