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Anon Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k55 grants · $264k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $125,000 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH WISCONSIN | $60,075 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION | $55,000 |
| MILWAUKEE JR ADMIRALS | $50,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE | $50,000 |
| ACTS HOUSING | $50,000 |
| ALL-IN MILWAUKEE | $47,500 |
| DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP | $40,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $40,000 |
| HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $35,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $35,000 |
| MILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC (SUMMERFEST) | $30,000 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $687k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
124 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k 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
THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +23%
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +303%
MKE URBAN STABLES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $165k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OFone grant, 2020 · $112k
- HRHARRY & ROSE SAMSON JCCone grant, 2020 · $85k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $68k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
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…
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…
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
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 promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
Making the arts accessible to all
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employ Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Broads for a Cause. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
132 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. 132 of the 217 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MKE URBAN STABLES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JR ADMIRALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Brewers Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prevent Blindness Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Harri Hoffmann Family 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Anon 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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