· Private foundation
Archie & Viola Meinerz Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of ARCHIE & VIOLA MEINERZ FAMILY 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIUS XI HIGH SCHOOL | $67,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| HAPPY ENDINGS NO KILL CAT SHELTER INC | $30,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $28,000 |
| ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CA | $25,000 |
| THREE HOLY WOMEN PARISH | $15,000 |
| ARCADIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HALES CORNERS LUTHERAN CHURCH & SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S SUPPORT CENTER OF MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| PREBORN | $10,000 |
| HEADWATERS FISHERIES INC | $5,000 |
| NEVADA OLD TIME FIDDLERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- MUMarquette University9× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +46%
- HEHappy Endings No-Kill Cat Shelter6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +14%
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HCHALES CORNERS LUTHERAN CHURCH SCHOOone grant, 2023 · $20k
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +94%
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.
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.
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
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 milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
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.
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
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,…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc and the most unlike its peers is Happy Endings No-Kill Cat Shelter. 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 45 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 Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Happy Endings No-Kill Cat Shelter ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Oakland Leaf Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMENS SUPPORT CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EWTN NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VEST-A-DOG INC ↗
- Who funds MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER 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 · Youth Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · James & Leigh Peterson Family Foundation · Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Anon Charitable Trust
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 Archie & Viola Meinerz Family 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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