· Private foundation
Abc Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Abc Foundation Charitable Trust’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 167 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Abc Foundation Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $246k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k6 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukes | $81,697 |
| Brown County United Way Inc | $65,000 |
| United Way of Metropolitan Chicago | $20,550 |
| United Way of Portage County Inc | $14,000 |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $11,000 |
| United Way Fox Cities | $10,000 |
| University of Wisconsin - Green Bay | $10,000 |
| United Way of Marathon County Inc | $7,500 |
| United Way of Dane County Inc | $7,500 |
| United Way of Rock River Valley | $7,000 |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $6,100 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County | $3,500 |
| Oshkosh Area United Way | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 181 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BCBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY2× · 2022–2023 · $139k · revenue +53%
- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC2× · 2022–2023 · $49k · revenue +2%
- UWUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $27k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UWUnited Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesone grant, 2022 · $82k
- UOUniversity of Wisconsin - Green Bayone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BBBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Building a coalition to create Milwaukee most dynamic neighborhood.
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
North Branch Works is a membership-supported nonprofit neighborhood organization that for more than three decades has promoted balanced, job-creating economic development along the North Branch of the Chicago River.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
To provide economic development services including business recruitment, expansion, business financing, community and workforce development.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…
We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Blackhawk Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lugenia Burns Hope Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
165 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 165 of the 195 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSINESS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL BRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Revitalize Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Sherman Phoenix Foundation ↗
- Who funds QUAD COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP ↗
- Who funds STARTINGBLOCK MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds HAVENWOODS NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development ↗
- Who funds Justine Petersen Housing And Reinvestment Corporation ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds BELLIN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Colorbold Business Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Abc Foundation Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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