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ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC
To receive gifts, establish donor funds, provide proper management of resources, and to provide for the current and future needs of the catholic community of the ten counties of the archdiocese of milwaukee through its grant program.
$2.4M
Granted FY2025
88
Grants
8
Communities
$189k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
returnresourcemenpregnancysetonmerchandisehope
2020
care lowincome adultsstemdevelopmentaldisabilitieslow incomeplanning
2021
purchase chromebookschromebooks tuitionshelterenvironmentpatientsracineworking
2022
renewalchildren'sspiritualequipmentkitchenpathworking
2023
renewalspiritualfacilitiessenior companionindependencepregnancymerchandise
2025
facilitiessenior companionfood pantryveteranspregnancysheltercare retired
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 88 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $985k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$176M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CONGREGATION OF HOLY ANGELS$188,890
- ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE$170,415
- ST FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY$160,088
- WAUKESHA CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM$117,920
- DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL$66,670
- SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME$66,093
- THE CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES$66,000
- WORLD MISSION MINISTRIES$66,000
- CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE$57,591
- ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$50,000
- SCHOOL SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS INC$50,000
- MESSMER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$42,228
- NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE$37,116
- MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$35,710
- JOHN PAUL II ACADEMY$31,420
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 8%. 96% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 118 repeat orgs$426k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
118 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
118
28
Total granted
$11M
$386k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+51%
+38%
Still filing today
47%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE7× · 2018–2025 · $340k · revenue +12%- CSCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $228k · revenue +39%
- MUMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- MMMOUNT MARY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $100k
- SPST PETER CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SMST MARGARET MARY PARISH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Milwaukee Development Corporation
Regional economic development
Community Improvement
2
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries
To provide healthcare for the elderly.
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3
Waukesha Free Clinic Inc
The clinic's mission is to support the health care of uninsured and low-income residents of waukesha county. the clinic provides access to free or discounted services and medications.
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4
Goodwill Industries of South Central
Help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services.
Employment
5
Kenosha Community Health Center Inc
To provide access to health care services and reduce health disparities for the underserved people.
Health
6
Wisconsin Voices Inc
Wisconsin voices provides technical assistance and resources to build capacity and leadership to 501(c)(3) organizations in support of commonly held values of equal opportunity, freedom, progress, and a government that works for all.
Civil Rights
7
Revitalize Milwaukee Inc
Revitalize Milwaukee transforms communities by providing free, critical home repairs and comprehensive services to low-income, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities. see page 2
Housing & Shelter
8
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc
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.
Employment
9
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc
Pathways of wisconsin provides day services and employment services including job development, training, and day-to-day support to consumers with developmental disabilities.
Human Services
10
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
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11
Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua
Advance the interests of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired.
Health
12
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopes Center of Racine Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. 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 54 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%2/151
the rest of the field
10%
920/9,066
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.
05the grantee network
71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/71
Grantees still filing
54/71
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$8,900,565Human Services$1,125,818Health$620,750Education$503,194Philanthropy$302,000Housing & Shelter$175,000Religion$89,945
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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA ST MARY'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT CENTER ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF HEALING CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds COREEL CENTRO ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE HIGH SCHOOL RACINE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds FRANSISCAN PEACEMAKERS ↗
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.
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI111.8× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · The Ros Foundation · Catholic Financial Life
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 organisation ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PHILIPPINE CULTURAL AND CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~29 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 391963082 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PHILIPPINE CULTURAL AND CIVIC CENTER FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 29 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic?
Find your warmest path to Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines