· Private foundation
Astor Street 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 $10k31 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $565k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KINSHIP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $125,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| The Rock Roll Hall of Fame Museum I | $100,000 |
| Western Los Angeles County Boy Scou | $89,900 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $50,000 |
| University School of Milwaukee | $50,000 |
| FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY | $25,000 |
| LYNDEN SCULPTURE GARDEN | $20,000 |
| 88Nine Radio Milwaukee | $15,000 |
| The Rock Roll Hall of Fame Museum I | $12,500 |
| Urban Ecology Center | $10,000 |
| Milwaukee Art Museum | $10,000 |
| META HOUSE | $10,000 |
| First Stage Children's Theater | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 22 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $356k · revenue +35%
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $258k · revenue +5%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CICRANBERRY ISLES REALTY TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +27%
- ICISLAND COASTAL INNOVATION FUND LLCone grant, 2020 · $35k
LYNDEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +85%
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.
Making the arts accessible to all
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
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…
The milwaukee public museum inspires curiosity, excites minds and increases desire to preserve and protect our world's natural and cultural diversity through exhibitions, educational programs, collections and research.
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
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.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
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)…
How this is measured
55 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. 55 of the 79 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.
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 MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds CRANBERRY ISLES REALTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST BIKESHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ARTS MKE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds VIVENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds SPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LYNDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Anon Charitable Trust · Youth Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Astor Street Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Astor Street Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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