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Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Inc at a glance

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Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$113k
Granted FY2018
35
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k32 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Dane County$30,000
Overture Foundation$10,000
Print Graphics Scholarship Foundati$10,000
Madison Foundation for Public Schoo$7,500
Madison Symphony Orchestra$5,000
American Players Theatre$5,000
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art$5,000
Wisconsin Youth Symphony$5,000
John J Frautschi Family Foundation$3,919
Wisconsin Historical Foundation$2,500
Madison Children's Museum$2,000
Madison Opera$2,000
Wisconsin Center for Academically T$2,000
UnityPoint Health-Meriter Foundatio$2,000
Madison Parks-Warner Park Comm Cent$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%East Madison Community Center: $1k → 10%Vera Court Neighborhood Center: $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 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
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
2
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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3
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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4
Madison Professional Police Officers Association Inc

The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.

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5
Madison Community Pool Corp

The madison community pool provides a quality seasonal recreational swimming facility for the members of the community.

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6
Madison Art Gallery
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7
Madison Development Corporation

Madison development corporation (mdc)'s mission is to help create jobs by providing gap financing to small businesses and to develop and finance quality, affordable workforce housing units in madison and the dane county area.

Community Improvement
8
Madison LakeWay Partners Inc

Madison LakeWay Partners is a private 501(c)(3) organization partnering with the City of Madison to leverage philanthropic dollars to reimagine the Lake Monona waterfront along John Nolen Drive. The Partners imagine the waterfront as a…

Recreation & Sports
9
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
10
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
11
Renew Wisconsin Inc

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

Environment
12
Madison Community Hospital

Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Madison Children's Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $30,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCOverture Foundation: $10,000 · OtherOverture FoundationPrint Graphics Scholarship Foundati: $10,000 · OtherPrint Graphics Scholarship FoundatiMadison Foundation for Public Schoo: $7,500 · OtherMadison Foundation for Public SchooWisconsin Youth Symphony: $5,000 · OtherWisconsin Youth SymphonyJohn J Frautschi Family Foundation: $3,919 · Other+13 more: $14,000 · Other+13 moreAmerican Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Players Thea…MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON SYMPHONY ORCH…MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON MUSEUM OF CON…WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN HISTORICAL …MADISON OPERA INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON OPERA INCMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON CHILDREN'S MU…MERITER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMADISON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyLITERACY NETWORK INC: $1,000 · EducationMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesMADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $1,000 · Community ImprovementKENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Community ImprovementMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Public BenefitCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 · Environment
Other$80,419Arts & Culture$21,500Philanthropy$3,000Education$2,000Human Services$2,000Community Improvement$2,000Public Benefit$1,000Environment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON OPERA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERITER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON NORTHSIDE PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN LAKES ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEDY HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY GROUNDWORKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…John J Frautschi Fami…Alliant Energy Founda…The Evjue Foundation …United Way of Dane Co…Pleasant T Rowland Fo…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Endres Manufacturing …The Oscar Rennebohm F…Trustage Foundation I…
Madison Gas and Electric Foundation IncWI42.8× affinity18 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 · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation Inc · Trustage 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 Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Webcrafters-Frautschi 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 35 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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