· Private foundation
Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $258k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $28,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE FIRST | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| AFAR DBA THE ABILITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PBS | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF MILW COUNTY | $15,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $15,000 |
| WUWM 897 MILWAUKEE'S NPR | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC | $15,000 |
| SCHILTZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| LAS CASA DE ESPERANZA INC | $10,000 |
| SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMEN | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $298k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +39%
- URUWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +9%
AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +17%
Funded once
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +8%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- LILIFESTRIDERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +108%
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
Making the arts accessible to all
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…
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.
We enhance the well-being of people of all ages with disabilities across wisconsin through the management of special needs trusts by promoting more choice and opportunities.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ACACIA THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EISENHOWER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Prevent Blindness Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds LIFESTRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Sherman Phoenix Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Journey 21 Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMETOWN HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Schoenleber Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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