· Private foundation
Wittwer Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Domestic Abuse Intervention Svcs | $20,000 |
| Edgewood College | $12,500 |
| American Red Cross | $10,000 |
| Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin | $10,000 |
| Wayforward Resources | $10,000 |
| The River Food Pantry | $10,000 |
| Dane County Humane Society | $7,500 |
| Operation Smile | $5,000 |
| Aquinas Foundation | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $5,000 |
| Agrace Foundation | $5,000 |
| Goodman Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| Culvers Foundation | $2,500 |
| American Heart Association | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- DADOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +11%
EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +18%- TRTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CCCatholic Charities - La Crosseone grant, 2021 · $10k
- DODominican of Sinsinawa Campaignone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CMChildren's Miracle Networkone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Dairy management inc (dmi) was formed in 1995 by the national dairy promotion and research board (ndb) and the united dairy industry association (udia). dmi is a management organization that invests dairy producer checkoff funds in…
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison and the most unlike its peers is Culver's Foundation 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Heart to Heart Experiences Inc ↗
- Who funds CULVER'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Hooper Corp Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Wittwer Family 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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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