Wisconsin · Nonprofit
RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC
RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,940 to it, the largest being MADISON GAS AND ELECTRIC FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Rsvp of Dane County Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to make a positive impact in the community by recruiting volunteers 55 and older to help public and non-profit organizations deliver essential services to people of all ages and identities, providing dane county with a valuable resource.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Driver services - rsvp's driver escort service responds to the transportation needs of dane county's older adult residents (60 years and older) who do not have access to other transportation resources such as bus, van, family and friends. Volunteers also deliver meals to older adults outside of madison who are unable to cook their own meals. Bus buddy & bus buddy tour volunteers teach other older adults, individually or in groups, how to achieve more independence and mobility by using the public bus system.this program helped over 2,000 older adults and veterans of all ages maintain their independence by providing 8,880 rides and delivering 165,704 meals. Through rsvp's vets helping vets program, veterans are recruited as volunteer drivers to serve veterans and their family members. Veterans who are unable to drive can receive a ride from a fellow veteran volunteer driver who understands some of the problems that younger veterans are facing. 627 unduplicated volunteers served in this program during the year.
$556,370 spent54% of program spendingCommunity services - include program activities of community connections, vets helping vets, intergenerational, group projects/homeworkers, dane county triad, and foster grandparents. This year 633 volunteers served in 76 nonprofits, public agencies and schools.community connections is a clearing house for volunteer opportunities geared towards adults age 55 and older. Personal placement ensures that volunteers are matched to opportunities that make use of their talents and interests and fit easily into the volunteers' schedules. Vets helping vets volunteers provide rides to medical appointments and other important trips for veterans and their families. Veterans who are unable to drive receive a ride from a fellow veteran volunteer driver who understands some of the problems that younger veterans are facing.rsvp's intergenerational program encourages seniors to interact with children of all ages across dane county. Volunteers serve in schools and local neighborhood centers as reading or math tutors, help with special projects, or as computer buddies.group projects/homeworker volunteers meet in groups or work at home to recycle donated materials making handmade items that benefit…
$469,285 spent46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,025,655.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $2.8M (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 54% · 2018 82% · 2019 82% · 2020 80% · 2021 72% · 2022 81% · 2023 86% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Diana Jost
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $7k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 72% · 2020 32% · 2021 62% · 2022 55% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
78% of RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$3.3M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC?
- RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,940 to it, the largest being MADISON GAS AND ELECTRIC FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $73,940 in grants to RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC?
- MADISON GAS AND ELECTRIC FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RSVP OF DANE COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing