Wisconsin · Nonprofit
YWCA MADISON INC
YWCA MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,872,041 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ($8,062,795). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
YWCA MADISON INC's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 30 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Community Shares of Wisconsin Incshared funderslocal
- Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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 35% · 2019 37% · 2020 28% · 2021 37% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of YWCA MADISON INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.3M.
12 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $964k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest YWCA of Madison Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YWCA MADISON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of YWCA MADISON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. 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
YWCA MADISON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund YWCA MADISON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 92% · 2019 89% · 2020 54% · 2021 61% · 2022 46% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of YWCA MADISON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
92% of YWCA MADISON 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. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 62 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Community Shares of Wisconsin Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- Webcrafters-Frautschi Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Purple Moon Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M3 Insurance Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 57 organizations near you
- Dane Buy Local Foundation InclocalWI · funds 1293 organizations near you
- Community Coordinated Child Care InclocalWI · funds 155 organizations near you
- Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Incshared fundersWI · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Startingblock Madison InclocalWI · funds 28 organizations near you
- Veridian Foundation InclocalWI · funds 75 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding YWCA MADISON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.1M
- Department of Justice$1.3M
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 YWCA MADISON INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- YWCA of Madison Foundation Inc · exempt
- YWCA Madison Developer LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YWCA MADISON 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds YWCA MADISON INC?
- YWCA MADISON INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,872,041 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ($8,062,795). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YWCA MADISON INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $16,872,041 in grants to YWCA MADISON INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA MADISON INC?
- UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,062,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA MADISON 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.
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 62funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing