· Private foundation
Arzbaecher Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $551k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE | $150,000 |
| WELL SPRING COMMUNITY | $134,500 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $123,000 |
| MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATIN | $75,000 |
| WAUWATOSA CURLING CLUB | $68,700 |
| DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY | $15,000 |
| THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| FIRST STAGE | $10,000 |
| ALL IN MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,100 |
| MILWAUKEE JOB WORKS | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $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 (FY17–24, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +52% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +21%
CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC4× · 2019–2024 · $700k · revenue +383%
WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION2× · 2017–2019 · $551k · revenue +83% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- SSSOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUBone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $18k
- CHCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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…
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…
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.
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 organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Milwaukee school of engineering (msoe) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level in the disciplines of engineering business, mathematics, and nursing. (see schedule o)…
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Michael Matters Foundation 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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 86 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 STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHEART INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM 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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Gardner Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc
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 Arzbaecher Family Foundation 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.