· Private foundation
Albert J & Flora H Ellinger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 54 grants below total $78,950 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $94,450 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY MKE & WAUK CTY | $15,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $4,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS METRO MKE | $3,750 |
| MED COL WI INST OF NEUROSCIENCE | $3,200 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CHILDRENS CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE FLORENTINE OPERA | $2,000 |
| PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER | $2,000 |
| LITERACY SERVICES | $1,500 |
| SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN | $1,500 |
| NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,000 |
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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…
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Audio & Braille Literacy Enhancement Inc. 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 51 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 54 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 UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN OF THE HEART-GREATER LACROSSE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Gardner Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Youth Foundation Inc · Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc
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.