· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation | $2,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin | $1,500 |
| Camp Manitowish | $1,000 |
| Bentley Village Foundation | $1,000 |
| College of Idaho | $1,000 |
| Notre Dame Middle School | $1,000 |
| United Methodist Chirldren's Services | $800 |
| University School of Milwaukee | $700 |
| Curative Workshop | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| The Next Door Foundation | $500 |
| Milwaukee Domes Alliance | $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.
Its 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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +73%
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Atkinson Ells Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Atkinson Ells Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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