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Anon Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
130
Grants FY2024
113
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
113 to 114
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$18M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Anon Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving128$1.9M21%
FY2023113$1.7M15%
FY2022114$1.8M51%
FY2020113$1.6Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.3MYouth Development$1.1MHuman Services$943kArts & Culture$831kPhilanthropy$818kHealth$730kRecreation & Sports$363kHousing & Shelter$289kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 135 grantees
All grantees of Anon Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee$205,00031%
Operation Dream Inc$180,000224%
Acts Community Development Corporation$170,00041%
Mke Urban Stables Inc$165,000316%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc$161,07531%
McPreparatory School of Wisconsin Inc$160,00040%
All-In Milwaukee Inc$157,50042%
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc$152,50040%
Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc$150,00030%
Milwaukee Jr Admirals Inc$132,50033%
The Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc$125,00040%
Hunger Task Force Inc$105,50040%
St Marcus Lutheran Church$100,0004n/a
Meta House Inc$100,00040%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc$97,500413%
Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy Inc$90,00031%
Securefutures Foundation Inc$82,00041%
St Norbert College Inc$75,00030%
Safe & Sound Inc$72,50031%
Milwaukee Jewish Free Loan Association$71,00048%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$67,50010%
College Possible Inc$65,00040%
St Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc$65,00030%
Sharp Literacy Inc$62,50041%
Sojourner Foundation$62,00040%
Prevent Blindness Wisconsin$61,70042%
Seeds of Health Inc$60,50040%
Kathy's House Inc$60,00032%
Grand Avenue Club Inc$60,00041%
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$55,00030%
Teens Grow Greens Inc$48,00041%
Penfield Children's Center Inc$42,50030%
Children's Outing Association$41,00040%
Journey House Inc$38,50031%
Florentine Opera Company Inc$38,00040%
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$37,00030%
Hometown Heroes Inc$35,00041%
HEAR Wisconsin Inc$35,00031%
Wisconsin Preservation Fund Inc$34,00012%
Milwaukee Public Museum Inc$32,00030%
Betty Brinn Children's Museum Inc$32,00040%
Project Return Inc$30,50041%
Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated$30,00030%
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation Inc$28,50031%
Admirals Power Play Foundation Inc$27,500110%
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc$26,50040%
Milwaukee School of Engineering$25,50030%
United Community Center Inc$25,00010%
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc$25,00030%
Playworks Education Energized$24,00030%
Abcd Inc$24,00041%
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc$24,00020%
Urban Ecology Center Inc$23,50040%
Life Navigators Inc$23,35540%
Lad Lake Inc$23,00030%
Wellpoint Care Network Inc$23,00020%
City on a Hill Inc$21,50030%
Discovery World Ltd$20,00030%
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc$20,00030%
Gigis Playhouse Inc$20,0004n/a
Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Inc$20,00020%
Community Advocates Inc$20,00040%
Milwaukee World Festival Inc$20,00010%
Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study$20,0001n/a
Lead2change Inc$17,50024%
Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc$17,50020%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc$16,50030%
Revitalize Milwaukee Inc$16,00020%
Ozaukee Youth Hockey Association$16,00030%
Beyond Vision Inc$15,50020%
Silver Spring Neighborhood Center Inc$15,50030%
Jewish Family Services Inc$15,00010%
Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc$15,00021%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$15,00010%
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation$15,00010%
Balance Inc$15,00020%
Rawhide Inc$15,00020%
Milwaukee Tennis and Education Foundation$15,00031%
Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens Inc$15,00031%
United Performing Arts Fund Inc$15,00010%
Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Inc$13,50020%
Impact Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services Inc$13,00020%
Riverworks Development Corporation$12,50010%
STEM Forward Inc$12,50032%
Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc$12,50010%
Whitefish Bay Foundation$10,750326%
Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc$10,15011%
First Stage Milwaukee$10,00010%
Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development$10,00010%
Dash Project Inc$10,00015%
Afar Inc Dba the Ability Center$10,00011%
Children's Dyslexia Centers Inc$10,00010%
The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc$10,00041%
Milwaukee Jewish Day School Inc$10,00010%
Northcott Neighborhood House Inc$10,00020%
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation$10,00010%
American Lung Association$9,00030%
Forever Fallucca Foundation$9,000347%
McC Scholars Foundation Inc$8,75042%
Mosorec International Foundation Inc$8,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$7,50010%
Camp for All Kids$7,50011%
Wisconsin Humane Society$7,50010%
Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc$7,50010%
Center for Deaf-Blind Persons Inc$7,00031%
Mentor Greater Milwaukee Inc$7,00032%
Paul Davis Charitable Fund$6,00016%
Messmer Inc$5,5001n/a
Upstream Arts Inc$5,00011%
Milwaukee Homeless Veterans Initiative Inc$5,00011%
New Concept Self Development Center Inc$5,00012%
Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc$5,00010%
Milwaukee Urban League$5,00010%
Feeding America$5,00010%
Alverno College$5,00010%
Literacy Services of Wisconsin Inc$5,00010%
Marquette University$5,00010%
Waukesha County Community Dental Clinic Inc$5,00020%
Milwaukee Diaper Mission Inc$5,00010%
The Community Warehouse Inc$5,00010%
Highland Community School Inc$5,00010%
Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc$5,00010%
Ronald McDonald House Global$5,00010%
Tbey Arts Center Inc$5,00011%
Employ Milwaukee Inc$4,80010%
Milwaukee Firefighter Charitable Foundation$4,80014%
Wisconsin Philanthropy Network Inc$3,00010%
Malaika Early Learning Center$3,00010%
Broads for a Cause$2,50015%
Katherine Jacobson Foundation Corporation$2,500112%
Independence First Inc$2,5001n/a
What Everett Takes Foundation$1,00011%
Whitefish Bay Public Education Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
All Hands Boatworks Inc$1,00010%
Mequon Nature Preserve Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Anon Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee: $205,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOperation Dream Inc: $180,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetActs Community Development Corporation: $170,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMke Urban Stables Inc: $165,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc: $161,075 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMcPreparatory School of Wisconsin Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAll-In Milwaukee Inc: $157,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc: $152,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMilwaukee Jr Admirals Inc: $132,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetThe Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHunger Task Force Inc: $105,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMeta House Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc: $97,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetDr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSecurefutures Foundation Inc: $82,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSt Norbert College Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $72,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMilwaukee Jewish Free Loan Association: $71,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $67,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Possible Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSharp Literacy Inc: $62,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSojourner Foundation: $62,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin: $61,700 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSeeds of Health Inc: $60,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKathy's House Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGrand Avenue Club Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTeens Grow Greens Inc: $48,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPenfield Children's Center Inc: $42,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Outing Association: $41,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJourney House Inc: $38,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFlorentine Opera Company Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMilwaukee Repertory Theater Inc: $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHometown Heroes Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWisconsin Preservation Fund Inc: $34,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBetty Brinn Children's Museum Inc: $32,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetProject Return Inc: $30,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHope House of Milwaukee Incorporated: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMilwaukee Public Library Foundation Inc: $28,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAdmirals Power Play Foundation Inc: $27,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetMilwaukee County War Memorial Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMilwaukee School of Engineering: $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Community Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 128.

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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 Milwaukee Foundation IncWI135.2× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Anon Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Anon 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.

About Anon Charitable Trust

How much does Anon Charitable Trust give?
Anon Charitable Trust reported 130 grants totaling $1,969,065 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 113 and 114 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Anon Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (15%), Youth Development (12%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Anon Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center of Milwaukee ($205k), Operation Dream Inc ($180k), Acts Community Development Corporation ($170k).
Does Anon Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Anon Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Anon Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
Where is Anon Charitable Trust based?
Anon Charitable Trust is based in WI.

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 217 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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