Colony Brands Foundation Inc
Monroe, WI · EIN 20-1344988. Reported 93 grants totalling $6,918,841 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Colony Brands Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a private independent foundation (NTEE T22).
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 59% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 74% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,592. Half of what it reported fell between $7,232 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,003 and the largest $4,002,372. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $7,075 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green County Family YMCA Inc | Monroe, WI | $4,109,939 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $919,816 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| School District of Monroe Wi | Monroe, WI | $814,587 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rubin for Kids Inc | Madison, WI | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Monroe Arts Center Inc | Monroe, WI | $97,309 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Madison Community Foundation | Madison, WI | $93,467 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Main Street Monroe Inc | Monroe, WI | $59,739 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Green County Humane Society Inc | Monroe, WI | $59,416 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Roar Foundation | Acton, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Monroe Clinic and Hospitalfoundation | Monroe, WI | $47,034 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jacobs Swag Foundation Inc | Monroe, WI | $43,717 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Edgewood University Inc | Madison, WI | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc | Mequon, WI | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Green County Food Pantry Inc | Monroe, WI | $35,192 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $30,596 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Green County Cheese Days Inc | Monroe, WI | $29,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Promise of Green County Inc | Monroe, WI | $28,638 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Everyoneneedsahome Inc | South Wayne, WI | $25,810 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Henry Vilas Park Zoological Soc | Madison, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Green Haven Family Advocates Inc | Monroe, WI | $24,927 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of PBS Wisconsin Inc | Madison, WI | $24,875 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| School District of New Glarus | New Glarus, WI | $23,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc | Janesville, WI | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Monroe - Parks & Rec | Monroe, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of New Glarus Woods State Park Inc | New Glarus, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc | Monroe, WI | $18,317 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Way of Dane County Inc | Madison, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Forum-Monroe Youth Hockey Association Inc | Monroe, WI | $11,274 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eau Claire Community Humane Association Inc | Eau Claire, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Madison Public Schools Foundation Inc | Madison, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul of Monroe Inc | Monroe, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc | Dodgeville, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Green County Emergency Medical Service Inc | Monroe, WI | $7,232 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Green County 4-H | Monroe, WI | $6,548 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $6,055 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| River Cities Information Referral and Assistance Services | Clinton, IA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Aly Wolff Foundation Inc | Cottage Grove, WI | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dane County Humane Society | Madison, WI | $5,003 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
19 of 38 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- School District of Monroe Wi
Football Stadium Scoreboard - Uw-Madison Foundation
Recruiting flights & gen. support - Main Street Monroe Inc
Underwriting & general support - Monroe Arts Center
Underwriting entertainment season - School District of New Glarus
Support of backpack buddies program - City of Monroe - Parks & Rec
Honey Creek Park Improvements
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 31 | $692,000 | $12,592 |
| 2022 | 20 | $978,780 | $12,952 |
| 2023 | 21 | $717,554 | $10,541 |
| 2024 | 21 | $4,530,507 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,592 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Wisconsin.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Colony Brands Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 20 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1112 7TH Avenue, Monroe, WI, 53566.
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