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Booth Family 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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Recreation & Sports$100kArts & Culture$83kEducation$82kReligion$14kPhilanthropy$10kHealth$4k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$50,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$25,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE$25,000
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$17,167
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$10,000
IMPACT 100 GREATER MILWAUKEE INC$5,000
SPECIAL SPACES INC$4,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$2,500
St Cecilia Cathedral$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%St Cecilia Cathedral: $1k → 12%TEACH FOR AMERICA INC: $10k → 17%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $17k → 17%SPECIAL SPACES INC: $4k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $5k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%FOX POINT LUTHERAN CHURCH: $13k → 17%HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE: $50k → 17%HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE: $25k → 17%MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM: $5k → 17%MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WI
NY
NE
WV
TN
MS
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$233k · 4 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$233k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • HH
    Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +64%
  • Southern Methodist University
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +3%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • FP
    FOX POINT LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
2
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
5
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
7
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

8
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
9
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
10
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

11
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc

The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…

Education
12
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee School of Engineering and the most unlike its peers is Special Spaces 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Northwestern University — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern UniversityHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee IncMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INCSouthern Methodist University — $50,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist UniversityMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $17,167 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGTeach for America Inc — $10,000 · EducationTeach for America IncUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUND…FOX POINT LUTHERAN CHURCH — $12,500 · OtherSAINT CECILIAS CATHEDRAL CORP — $1,000 · OtherIMPACT100 GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL SPACES INC — $4,000 · Health
Recreation & Sports$100,000Arts & Culture$82,500Education$82,167Other$13,500Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Health$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorthwestern University — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $17,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT100 GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Booth 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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