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Andy Nunemaker Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $870 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $400 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2019–2022 · $37k · revenue +5%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC3× · 2018–2021 · $36k · revenue +8%
- MYMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC4× · 2018–2021 · $5k · revenue +91%
Funded once
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -5%- IFINSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +22%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Making the arts accessible to all
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The mission of madison opera is to produce operas of the highest artistic standards.
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…
To provide the finest collaborative environment for: supporting performing arts training and education for a diverse population of youth; nurturing youth from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, instilling life-skills…
Support the south milwaukee performing arts center and community arts
The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code ("irc") and for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to…
The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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 mission of bel canto chorus is to connect singers, audiences, and the community through experiences with diverse choral music.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saveartspace. 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 52 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 35 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 MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds VIVENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAVEARTSPACE ↗
- Who funds DIVERSE AND RESILIENT INC ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOLTON STREET CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds ANN'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREAM CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Borgen Project ↗
- Who funds SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLY MUSIC 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · National Center for Housing Management Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Marcus Corporation Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wilson Family Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Gardner 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 Andy Nunemaker Foundation Inc 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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