The Registry Inc
Fitchburg, WI · EIN 39-1951690. Reported 53 grants totalling $3,446,751 to 37 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 The Registry Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S41) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 47% 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. 89% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $19,350. Half of what it reported fell between $10,675 and $51,075; the smallest was $5,600 and the largest $1,031,625. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Early Education Station Inc | West Allis, WI | $1,611,050 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Thriving Wisconsin Inc | Madison, WI | $304,200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sprout Childcare | La Crosse, WI | $215,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Coordinated Child Care | Madison, WI | $175,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 4C for Children Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $94,475 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Networx LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $94,028 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Five Star Educational Training | Milwaukee, WI | $84,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Start Training Center | Milwaukee, WI | $83,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Child Care Matters Network Inc | Wauwatosa, WI | $69,398 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Love Play Learn | Milwaukee, WI | $67,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thompson's Early Care Improvement Services | Milwaukee, WI | $64,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family and Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin Inc | Green Bay, WI | $59,475 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Invest Solutions (essential Progessional Development) | Wauwatosa, WI | $50,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Work & Family Consulting Inc | Depere, WI | $45,950 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jacq of All Trades | Germantown, WI | $44,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Miracles Training Center LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $41,475 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Child Care Resource and Referral Inc | Kimberly, WI | $32,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cempi LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $27,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Madison College Training Agency | Madison, WI | $26,650 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northwest Connection Family Resources Inc | Hayward, WI | $24,975 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council Incorporated | Independence, WI | $23,775 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gardner Learning Center LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $20,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Connections Inc | Sheboygan, WI | $18,875 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwood Technical College | Rice Lake, WI | $18,775 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Caregivers United Leadership Academy | West Allis, WI | $18,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Proveedoras Unidas Association | Milwaukee, WI | $17,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Phases Training and Consulting LLC | Milwaukee, WI | $16,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dsce LLC | Oconomowoc, WI | $15,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childcaring Inc | Mosinee, WI | $14,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tendercare Christian Child Care Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wellseed Training and Resources LLC | Brown Deer, WI | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Uw Milwaukee Children's Center | Milwaukee, WI | $10,350 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wise Turtle Teachings LLC | Menominee, WI | $6,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kyria Child Care | Oshkosh, WI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| P&p Ece Training Solutions | Middleton, WI | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Parenting Place Inc | La Crosse, WI | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association Kettle Moraine | West Bend, WI | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
13 of 37 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.
- The Early Education Station Inc
TO PROVIDE ENTRY LEVEL TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES FOR CHILD CARE PROVIDERS. - Sprout Childcare
CHILD CARE FOUNDATIONAL TRAINING - Supporting Families Together Association
SUPPORTING FAMILIES TOGETHER ASSOCIATION IS WISCONSINS STATEWIDE MEMBER ASSOCIATION FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS COMMITTED TO MAKING EVERY EARLY CHILDHOOD A GREAT ONE. OUR MEMBERS ARE WISCONSINS CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL AGENCIES (CCR&RS) AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS (FRCS). WE PROVIDE SERVICES AND SUPPORTS TO OUR MEMBER AGENCIES IN ORDER TO POSITIVELY IMPACT CHILDREN, PARENTS, CHILD CARE PROVIDERS, AND THE WORLD OF EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION THROUGHOUT WISCONSIN. BY PARTNERING WITH OUR MEMBERS, WE ENSURE EFFECTIVE FAMILY SUPPORT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMMING IS AVAILABLE STATEWIDE; RESOURCES ARE STRATEGICALLY LEVERAGED AND MAXIMIZED; AND MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND SYSTEMS ARE BUILT. - Community Coordinated Child Care
COLLECT AND ANALYZE CHILD CARE DATA - Child Care Matters Network Inc
CHILDCARE CLASSES, CONSULTANTS, ACCREDITATION GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT, COACHING & MENTORING - Family and Childcare Resources of Northeast Wisconsin Inc
EDUCATION TO CHILDCARE PROVIDERS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 10 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 9 | $504,450 | $10,675 |
| 2022 | 14 | $1,629,101 | $22,214 |
| 2024 | 30 | $1,313,200 | $17,950 |
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
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $19,350 -- 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 The Registry Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 20 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: 2908 Marketplace Dr 103, Fitchburg, WI, 53719.
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