· Private foundation
Arthur J Donald 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE | $50,000 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OZAUKEE WASHINGTON LAND TRUST | $12,500 |
| COPPER RIVER WATERSHED PROJECT | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +273% since the first grant, against +236% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $207k · revenue +57%- LMLAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY4× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +273%
- RLRESTORING LANDS INC4× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +451%
Funded once
Milwaukee Audubon Society Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +236%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Wisconsin Wetlands Association is dedicated to the protection, restoration, and enjoyment of wetlands and associated ecosystems through science-based programs, education, and advocacy.
The natural resource development association supports policies that lead to proper, necessary, and conscientious resource development and conservation. by engaging community leaders, laborers, manufacturers, and job creators in the…
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
Our mission is to protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the river corridors and to advocate for sound land use in the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic River Watersheds.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
The mission of Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory is to promote conservation of raptors and other birds in the Western Lake Superior Region through research, education, and stewardship.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLAME TREE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds Copper River Watershed Project ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN SOCIETY FOR ORNITHOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Milwaukee Audubon Society Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natural Resources Foundation Of · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arthur J Donald Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur J Donald Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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