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Arzbaecher Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$708k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.2MEnvironment$552kHuman Services$423kRecreation & Sports$360kReligion$227kPhilanthropy$207kArts & Culture$170kCommunity Improvement$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $551k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALL IN MILWAUKEE$10,000
FIRST STAGE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,100
MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP$5,000
MILWAUKEE JOB WORKS$5,000
ST MARCUS SCHOOL$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WELL SPRING COMMUNITY: $135k → 3%BRAVEHEARTS: $2k → 6%THE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 14%WELL SPRING COMMUNITY: $53k → 3%BRAVEHEARTS: $1k → 6%THE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 14%WELL SPRING COMMUNITY: $50k → 3%THE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 14%SHARP LETERACY INC: $500 → 17%WELL SPRING COMMUNITY: $38k → 3%THE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $2k → 14%WELL SPRING COMMUNITY: $27k → 3%THE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $1k → 14%WELL SPRING COMMUNITY: $13k → 3%THE CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $540 → 14%WELL SPRING COMMUNITY: $10k → 3%MISERICODIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
NY
IA
CO
NM
NC
OK
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 46 repeat orgs$236k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
32

Total granted

$5.0M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+15%

Still filing today

52%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +21%
  • CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $700k · revenue +383%
  • WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $551k · revenue +83% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
  • CH
    CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

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…

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2
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

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…

Education
3
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

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.

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4
The Uwm Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
6
Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee Inc

A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future

Education
7
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

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)

Education
8
Michigan Science Center

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.

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Milwaukee School of Engineering

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)…

Education
11
Kipp Chicago Schools

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…

Education
12
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,208,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $700,000 · EducationCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INCST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $216,500 · EducationST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC+11 more: $103,142 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $690,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONWAUWATOSA CURLING CLUB: $278,700 · OtherWAUWATOSA CURLING CLUBST JOHN VIANNEY: $176,600 · OtherST JOHN VIANNEYCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE: $100,250 · OtherCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCEUPAF: $90,000 · OtherSCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC: $82,700 · OtherSOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB: $75,000 · Other+49 more: $358,540 · Other+49 moreWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION: $551,000 · Housing & ShelterWALNUT WAY …WELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $325,314 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $52,500 · Human Services+4 more: $15,040 · Human ServicesFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $133,855 · Arts & CultureSHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $92,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $4,537 · PhilanthropyMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Education$2,227,642Other$1,851,790Housing & Shelter$551,000Human Services$392,854Arts & Culture$143,855Philanthropy$116,537Community Improvement$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,208,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $700,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION: $551,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetWELLSPRING COMMUNITY: $325,314 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $216,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $133,855 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC: $82,700 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB: $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $52,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREENHEART INTERNATIONAL: $31,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $9,540 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE YACHT CLUB: $4,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBreckenridge Outdoor Education Center: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael Matters Foundation Inc: $1,468 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,037 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $392 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 SOUTH SHORE YACHT CLUB ↗
  • Who funds MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE 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 THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Baird Foundation IncRalph Evinrude Founda…Anon Charitable TrustEvan & Marion Helfaer…Bradley Impact Fund I…Bert L and Patricia S…Gardner FoundationNorthwestern Mutual L…
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI33.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arzbaecher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arzbaecher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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