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Veridian Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY$10,000
DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES$10,000
THE PLAYING FIELD$7,500
MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$6,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY$5,000
JOURNEY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$5,000
SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$5,000
OCONOMOWOC AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,000
SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC$4,000
FOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS$4,000
YMCA$4,000
ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC$4,000
SHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES$3,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC - DIOCESE OF MADISON: $120k → 10%ONE CITY SCHOOLS: $2k → 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

+31%
+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
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

  • PI
    PORCHLIGHT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $140k · revenue +27%
  • DA
    DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $140k · revenue +30%
  • 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%
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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 154 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/92
Grantees still filing
52/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPORCHLIGHT INC: $140,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC: $140,000 over 3y, 4.1% 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 budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALY WOLFF FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGIFTS FOR KIDS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHORIZON HIGH SCHOOL OF MADISON INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DANE COUNTY PARKS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSUNSHINE PLACE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATHERING WATERS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetSun Prairie Public Library Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budget
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.

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

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 Veridian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Veridian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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.

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