· Community foundation
Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc
The foundation exists to support the mission of the roman catholic church, especially in the ten archdiocesan counties of southeastern wisconsin.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 88 grants below total $2,240,842 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,357,166 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $116,324 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $985k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| WORLD MISSION MINISTRIES | $66,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES | $66,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE | $57,591 |
| SCHOOL SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS INC | $50,000 |
| ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MESSMER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $42,228 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $37,116 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $35,710 |
| JOHN PAUL II ACADEMY | $31,420 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
126 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2025, 48 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $439k · revenue +12%- AWASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +313%
CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $288k · revenue +8%
Funded once
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -9%- SPST PETER CONGREGATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SFST FRANCES CABRINI CONGREGATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
To ensure that men, women, and children in the greater milwaukee area receive the quality health care, behavioral health, housing, and supportive services they need in order to live at the highest possible level of self-sufficiency.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Kenosha community health center, inc.'s purpose is to provide primary care and referral health services to disadvantaged and underserved populations and promote and ensure that basic primary health services are accessible to uninsured and…
The mission of the milwaukee women's center, inc. is to provide innovative, culturally competent holistic care that will empower men, women, and children to live safe, independent, and healthy lives.
The organization is dedicated to the practice of primary health care and health-related social care coordination. Although our goal is to provide services for all of the greater Milwaukee area, this is a
Rooted in our catholic tradition and commitment to christian love and community, milwaukee catholic home, inc. (mch) provides continuing care services for older adults.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy Inc. 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 54 years old; the field is 21. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 163 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.
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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.
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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 Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community 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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