· Private foundation
Vogel Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k27 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| School Supplies To Various School Districts | $89,204 |
| St John's Lutheran Church | $9,000 |
| Goodman Community Center | $2,500 |
| WAMY | $2,500 |
| MitchellYancey Habitat for Humanity | $2,500 |
| Solace Friends Inc | $1,500 |
| The Salvation Army | $1,100 |
| The Salvation Army | $1,100 |
| Three Gaits Inc | $1,000 |
| American Red Cross | $1,000 |
| Fair Shake Village Africa | $1,000 |
| Just Dane | $700 |
| Spruce Pine Montessori School | $700 |
| Arthur Morgan School | $600 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Polk County | $500 |
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, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- IAIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +80%
- OFOAKWOOD FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +24%
- SFSolace Friends Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SSSchool Supplies for Kidsone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SPSt Paul's Lutheran Church and Schoolone grant, 2022 · $1k
- MAMuskegon Art Foundationone grant, 2021 · $900
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…
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…
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…
The partnership is committed to housing for everyone because it's essential for building healthy communities. we build effective public-private partnerships to expand access to affordable housing options. we do this by directly developing…
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Triangle Community Ministry 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 41 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
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 IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Solace Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JUSTDANE ↗
- Who funds THREE GAITS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR MORGAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Arts for All Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Epilepsy Foundation of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
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 · United Way of Dane County Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · Veridian Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · M3 Insurance Foundation Inc · Trustage 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 Vogel 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.
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.
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