· Private foundation
Trustage Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $587k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $650,000 |
| YOURCAUSE INC | $509,557 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS | $250,000 |
| BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| YMCA MADISON | $150,000 |
| IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY | $100,000 |
| 247 BLAC | $80,000 |
| THE 1619 FREEDOM SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| CEOS OF TOMORROW | $75,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY | $75,000 |
| OPERATION FRESH START | $70,000 |
| THE JESSE COSBY CENTER | $70,000 |
| GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFESCHOOLS | $65,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k 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
- CHCENTRO HISPANO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +81%
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $653k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -17% · 27% of their budget
- LCLUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $298k · revenue -13%
- FRFILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +34%
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
Engaging the community to end hunger
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cross Community Players Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
231 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. 231 of the 370 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEARTLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds 1619 FREEDOM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYDM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mentoring Positives Inc ↗
- Who funds CEDAR VALLEY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CEDAR VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CLIMB USA INC ↗
- Who funds Families and Schools Together Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FILENE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED WI INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON WEALTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES HAMILTON HOUSTON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WISE WOMEN GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GAY STRAIGHT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE SCHOOLS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds URBAN TRIAGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds END DOMESTIC ABUSE WISCONSIN THE WI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
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: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Rotary Foundation · Veridian 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 Trustage 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.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.