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.

Townsend Foundation Inc

Townsend Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Townsend Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$98kArts & Culture$82kHuman Services$55kEducation$54kEnvironment$44kReligion$40kYouth Development$11kCommunity Improvement$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
MILWAUKEE REP THEATER	$2,500
RESERVATION OUTREACH	$2,500
WI LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERV	$2,500
RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER	$2,500
SHEPHERDS COLLEGE	$2,500
HEPHATHA LUTHERAN CHURCH MILWAUKEE	$2,500
RESTORING LANDS A WI LAND TRUST	$2,500
MEQUON NATURE PRESERVE	$2,500
FROEDTERT MENOMONEE FALLS FNDN	$2,500
MILLER ART MUSEUM	$2,000
NEXT DOOR	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$300k · 36 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$300k

$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+9%

Still filing today

72%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +86%
HC
Hope Center Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +87%
ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +147%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $4k
CL
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $4k
NN
NATH NORTHWOOD ALLIANCE
one grant, 2021 · $4k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

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…

Environment

Lifeways of Wisconsin Inc

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,

Human Services

Family Voices of Wisconsin Inc

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.

Health

Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

—

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

—

Variety - the Children's Charity of Wisconsin Inc

Enriching the lives of children with physical or developmental special needs and their families.

—

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services

Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

The Milwaukee Women's Center Inc

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.

Human Services

Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc

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.

—

Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eras Senior Network Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/47

Grantees still filing

27/47

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$212,659Health$63,900Arts & Culture$48,450Environment$39,040Human Services$38,000Recreation & Sports$14,500Youth Development$10,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI63× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Townsend Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Townsend Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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