· Private foundation
Atkinson Ells Charitable Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin | $1,500 |
| College of Idaho | $1,000 |
| Camp Manitowish | $1,000 |
| Bentley Village Foundation | $1,000 |
| Notre Dame Middle School | $1,000 |
| United Methodist Chirldren's Services | $800 |
| University School of Milwaukee | $700 |
| Curative Workshop | $600 |
| The Next Door Foundation | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Milwaukee Domes Alliance | $500 |
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 (FY21–24, $3k) 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MPMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +64%
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +42%- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +253%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $900
- ISInterfaith Sanctuary of Boise IDone grant, 2021 · $700
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $500
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.
Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.
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.
Woodlands school, inc. is a public charter non-profit school authorized through the univerity of wisconsin-milwaukee using a character-based education approach to prepare children for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.
Mission: educating youngsters to become an informed, committed, and difference-making generation. vision: educating children to graduate as informed, engaged, ethically minded citizens of the world that they inherit. purpose: milwaukee…
Private school dedicated to education of children from pk4 through grade 12.
In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.
Respecting children and their natural joy of discovery.
Children will discover their unique potential by living the Montessori lifestyle hand in hand with parents and staff.
To create a montessori environment where the child's early experiences with learning will help him or her to become a self-confident, competent, cooperative adult.
Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods
The mission of milwaukee math and science academy, inc. is to create a learning community in which:-teachers, parents and students work together to develop young people who are confident and achieve academic excellence in a powerful…
The mission of meridian public charter school is to inspire a passion for learning in our students and to help them build their self-confidence and self-respect through academic achievement. continued on schedule o.meridian public charter…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Next Door Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speak Your Silence Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSTONE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Speak Your Silence Inc ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY VILLAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The College of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Atkinson Ells Charitable 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.