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Veridian 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.

$170k
Granted FY2023
71
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Food & Nutrition$404kHuman Services$402kYouth Development$342kHealth$254kHousing & Shelter$198kEducation$91kCrime & Legal$34kArts & Culture$29kOther$0
02FY2023 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k68 grants · $140k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$34k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALY WOLFF FOUNDATION INC$10,000
DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY$10,000
THE PLAYING FIELD$7,500
MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$6,500
SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$5,000
OCONOMOWOC AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,000
JOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY$5,000
ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC$4,000
SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC$4,000
YMCA$4,000
FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS$4,000
SHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES$3,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $400k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GIFTS FOR KIDS: $3k → 10%BALANCE INC: $1k → 6%HOPE HOUSE OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $6k → 9%GIFTS FOR KIDS INC: $2k → 10%MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS INC: $3k → 10%LUTHERAN COUNSELING & FAMILY SERVICES WI: $1k → 17%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $120k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $10k → 10%DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 10%IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE INC: $3k → 10%SUNSHINE PLACE: $2k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS: $4k → 10%VILLAGE DIAPER BANK: $2k → 10%ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $8k → 10%NDSS - NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES: $200 → 10%WAUNAKEE NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION CORP: $60k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $2k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC - DIOCESE OF MADISON: $120k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $20k → 10%REACH A CHILD: $8k → 10%REACH-A-CHILD INC: $3k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $3k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MADISON: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$975k · 40 repeat orgs$873k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
71

Total granted

$975k
$779k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+9%

Still filing today

85%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • DA
    DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $140k · revenue +30%
  • PI
    PORCHLIGHT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $140k · revenue +27%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI
    2× · 2020–2021 · $132k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -28%
  • BP
    BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $102k · revenue +49%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -15%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
3
Renew Wisconsin Inc

Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.

Environment
4
United Way of Dane County Inc

Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.

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5
Waukesha County Community Foundation

Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…

Philanthropy
6
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
7
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
8
Wispact Inc

We enhance the well-being of people of all ages with disabilities across wisconsin through the management of special needs trusts by promoting more choice and opportunities.

Human Services
9
Madison Community Cooperative

Madison community cooperative's mission is to improve the madison community by providing low-cost, not-for-profit cooperative housing for very low to moderate income people and to be inclusive of underrepresented and marginalized groups.

Education
10
Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education
11
The Wisconsin Ffa Foundation Inc

The wisconsin ffa foundation builds relationships and encourages philanthropy to support and grow agricultural education and ffa.the national ffa organization is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by…

Youth Development
12
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr12%8%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr18%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr15%34%35–55yr18%17%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/99
the rest of the field
11%
1,053/9,819

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.

04the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 154 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/92
Grantees still filing
52/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $143,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC D…DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $140,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENT…Waunakee Neighborhood Connection — $60,000 · Human ServicesWaunakee Neighborhood Co…+13 more — $56,200 · Human Services+13 moreUW HEALTH — $60,000 · OtherUW HEALTHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $46,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE …HUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $40,000 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $33,250 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS …MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $45,700 · OtherMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDA…SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $29,500 · OtherSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CE…+100 more — $222,734 · Other+100 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLU…+4 more — $5,700 · Youth DevelopmentSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $132,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FO…BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC — $102,000 · Food & NutritionBADGER PRAIRIE NE…THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $48,900 · Food & NutritionTHE RIVER FOOD PA…+1 more — $2,000 · Food & NutritionPORCHLIGHT INC — $140,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $3,500 · Housing & ShelterCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $35,532 · HealthAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $10,000 · HealthSPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC — $7,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,500 · HealthJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $5,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $8,500 · HealthWAUNAKEE ECUMENICAL BOARD INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyMERITER FOUNDATION INC — $19,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ALY WOLFF FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWaunakee Community Foundation Inc — $7,000 · Philanthropy+8 more — $10,900 · Philanthropy
Human Services$399,700Other$477,184Youth Development$305,700Food & Nutrition$284,900Housing & Shelter$143,500Health$136,532Philanthropy$107,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $300,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $143,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC — $140,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC — $140,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $132,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC — $102,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaunakee Neighborhood Connection — $60,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWAUNAKEE ECUMENICAL BOARD INC — $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC — $48,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $46,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $45,700 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $35,532 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $33,250 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $29,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMERITER FOUNDATION INC — $19,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetReach A Child Inc — $10,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE ALY WOLFF FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWaunakee Community Foundation Inc — $7,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC — $7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MADISON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMequon Nature Preserve Inc — $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFTS FOR KIDS INC — $4,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGATHERING WATERS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPE CRISIS CENTER INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE PLACE INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMADISON READING PROJECT INC — $3,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DISABILITES DYSLEXIA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRAT FEST INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSun Prairie Public Library Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…The Evjue Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Endres Manufacturing …Trustage Foundation I…United Way of Dane Co…The Roots and Wings F…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Sub-Zero Group Founda…The Oscar Rennebohm F…
Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI108.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm 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 Veridian 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Veridian Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Veridian Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

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