· Public charity
United Way of Dane County Inc
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $167k
- $10k–50k64 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k35 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+10 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RISE Wisconsin | $1,203,675 |
| YWCA of Madison | $846,422 |
| United Way of Dane County Foundation | $521,491 |
| CHC Creating Healthier Communities | $467,902 |
| Centro Hispano of Dane County | $457,513 |
| The Road Home | $445,289 |
| Urban League of Greater Madison | $382,469 |
| Community Action Coalition for South Central WI | $361,726 |
| JustDane | $326,533 |
| Community Shares of Wisconsin | $308,903 |
| Journey Mental Health Center | $229,580 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Madison | $222,566 |
| Rainbow Project | $218,680 |
| Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern WI | $209,109 |
| Access Community Health Centers | $208,427 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $24.0M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
178 repeat relationships: 112 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 14 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RWRISE WISCONSIN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +7%
- YMYWCA MADISON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +31%
- CHCENTRO HISPANO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +238% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- TRTENANT RESOURCE CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +15%
- MPMentoring Positives Incone grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue -29%
- NFNEIGHBORHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INCone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
220 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 220 of the 273 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Dane County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Dane County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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