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Abc Foundation Charitable Trust at a glance

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Abc Foundation Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$246k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

11
’22
167
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.6MCommunity Improvement$716kHousing & Shelter$389kEducation$122kHuman Services$118kYouth Development$96kEmployment$86kArts & Culture$76kOther$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $147k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$473k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay$10,000
United Way Fox Cities$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Greater Twin Cities United Way: $11k → 11%United Way of Greater St Louis Inc: $6k → 21%SEE ATTACHED: $1.2M → 5%United Way Fox Cities: $10k → 6%University of Wisconsin - Green Bay: $10k → 10%United Way of Portage County Inc: $14k → 10%United Way of Dane County Inc: $8k → 10%United Way of Marathon County Inc: $8k → 11%Oshkosh Area United Way: $3k → 11%United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukes: $82k → 17%United Way of Metropolitan Chicago: $21k → 14%United Way of Rock River Valley: $7k → 15%SEE ATTACHED: $233k → 5%Brown County United Way Inc: $65k → 10%Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$322k · 10 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$322k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BC
    BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $139k · revenue +53%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $49k · revenue +2%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $27k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukes
    one grant, 2022 · $82k
  • UO
    University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
East Side Business Improvement Dist

Building a coalition to create Milwaukee most dynamic neighborhood.

Community Improvement
2
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

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.

Human Services
3
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy
5
Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board Inc

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.

Public Benefit
6
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

—
7
Local Economic and Employment Development Council Inc

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.

Employment
8
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
9
Racine County Economic Development Corporation

To provide economic development services including business recruitment, expansion, business financing, community and workforce development.

Human Services
10
United Way of North Central Iowa

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…

Philanthropy
11
Milwaukee Development Corporation

-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…

Community Improvement
12
Southern Lakes Credit Union

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Blackhawk Region Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

165 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
161/165
Grantees still filing
97/165
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,150,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY: $138,550 · Philanthropy+24 more: $280,359 · Philanthropy+24 moreWISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $108,500 · OtherWISCONSIN COMMUNITY…United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukes: $81,697 · OtherUnited Way of Great…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $65,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANIT…WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $42,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $32,500 · Other+77 more: $624,350 · Other+77 moreGREATER GREEN BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $62,500 · Community ImprovementDIGITAL BRIDGE INC: $43,750 · Community ImprovementURBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $33,300 · Community ImprovementSTARTINGBLOCK MADISON INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementColorbold Business Association Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementHAVENWOODS NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementQUAD COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP: $15,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,000 · Community Improvement+20 more: $145,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSING RESOURCES INC: $38,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF GREEN BAY INC: $21,500 · Housing & ShelterRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $21,000 · Housing & ShelterJustine Petersen Housing And Reinvestment Corporation: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC: $11,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECT: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterWISCONSIN NATIVE LOAN FUND INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Resurrection Project: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMT SINAI DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Veterans Issues Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLEGACY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+6 more: $31,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesSherman Phoenix Foundation: $15,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesMOVIN OUT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST SIDE HOUSING CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $7,500 · Human ServicesNORTHWOODS VETERANS HOMESTEAD LTD: $7,500 · Human Services+15 more: $68,500 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC: $17,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $15,500 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN HERITAGE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC: $12,500 · EmploymentNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $10,000 · EmploymentZION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · EmploymentEMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ASSOCIATION OF DANE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · EmploymentHIRED: $7,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC: $5,000 · EmploymentSKILLS FOR CHICAGO: $5,000 · EmploymentINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Employment
Philanthropy$3,568,909Other$954,547Community Improvement$356,550Housing & Shelter$240,000Human Services$180,500Arts & Culture$70,500Employment$62,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY: $138,550 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $108,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $74,009 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $62,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BUSINESS COUNCIL INC: $62,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $48,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIGITAL BRIDGE INC: $43,750 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $42,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC: $38,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetURBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $33,300 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $23,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF GREEN BAY INC: $21,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $21,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $19,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC: $18,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $17,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $15,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLIN COLLEGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJustine Petersen Housing And Reinvestment Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER MADISON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTARTINGBLOCK MADISON INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetColorbold Business Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSherman Phoenix Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHAVENWOODS NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGreater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetQUAD COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ROCK RIVER VALLEY: $14,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $13,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOR PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN HERITAGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMOVIN OUT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Green Bay Com…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Otto Bremer TrustUnited Way of Greater…Wisconsin Public Serv…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Wells Fargo FoundationGeorge Kress Foundati…US Ventureschmidt Fam…
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation IncWI174.8× affinity104 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Abc Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abc Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Abc Foundation Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Abc Foundation Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 195 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $233k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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