Oscar Rennebohm Foundation

About Oscar Rennebohm Foundation

The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation is a private foundation providing grants to enhance education, health care, research, and human services, and improve the quality of life in the Madison area. Established by business leader and former Wisconsin Governor Oscar Rennebohm as a way to thank the community that made his success possible, the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation has invested more than $96 million through nearly 900 grants for projects that are visible in landmarks throughout the Madison landscape and across Dane County: the UW-Madison, Edgewood and Madison college campuses; health care facilities; and neighborhood and community centers, among many others. The Oscar Rennebohm Foundation welcomes grant applications from any nonprofit organization in Madison, Wisconsin or Dane County whose project applies to one of its four focus areas: • education • health care • human services • research The foundation strives to be responsive to the Madison community’s emerging needs and prioritizes projects will have an immediate positive impact on local residents’ quality of life, as well as enrich and improve lives into the future. It is currently most interested in projects related to senior support services and K–12 mental health but will consider all grant requests that fall within its four focus areas listed above.

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