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Brewers Community Foundation Inc

BCF harnesses the pride, passion and commitment of Brewers fans, players and supporters to positively impact the lives of children and families in Milwaukee and Wisconsin with grants and other initiatives

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$280k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202024.

Philanthropy$1.5MHuman Services$874kEducation$458kArts & Culture$374kHealth$321kHousing & Shelter$215kYouth Development$193kEnvironment$174kCommunity Improvement$151kOther$1.3M
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 48 grants below total $1,353,982 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,588,425 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,234,443 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k42 grants · $798k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $276k
  • $250k+1 grant · $280k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sojourner Family Peace Cen$280,000
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foun$60,051
Milwaukee Public Library$55,000
LULAC Council 333$54,000
Milwaukee Parks Foundation$53,998
Donald Driver Foundation$53,000
Sharp Literacy Inc$35,000
Waukesha Cty Comm Found$33,333
Aurora Health Care Found$30,000
Hisp Prof of Greater MKE$30,000
The Guest House$30,000
Pearls for Teen Girls Inc$28,000
Dr Howard Fuller Coll Aca$27,000
Urban Ecology Center$25,000
Zablocki Va Medical Ctr$25,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $859k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA SE Ventura County: $50k → 10%Joe Torre Safe at Home Fnd: $5k → 17%American Red Cross: $25k → 14%Blessings in a Backpack: $6k → 15%The Women's Center: $16k → 5%The Women's Center: $10k → 5%Sharp Literacy Inc: $70k → 17%Sharp Literacy: $50k → 17%Sharp Literacy Inc: $35k → 17%Sharp Literacy Inc: $25k → 17%The Gathering of SE WI: $20k → 17%HmongAmer Frndshp Assoc: $15k → 17%Journey House: $30k → 17%Journey House: $12k → 17%Foundations for Freedom: $10k → 17%Secure Futures Foundation: $11k → 17%SecureFutures Foundation: $10k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Cen: $280k → 17%Milwaukee Urban League: $40k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Cen: $33k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Ctr: $30k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Ctr: $26k → 17%Milwaukee Urban League: $25k → 17%Milwaukee Urban League: $25k → 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

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
KY
AZ
DC
GA

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 63 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
43

Total granted

$3.6M
$697k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+27%

Still filing today

92%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $369k · revenue +32%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +104%
  • MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +57%
  • DISCOVERY WORLD LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +117%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +91%

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
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

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…

4
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
5
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

6
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

7
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

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…

Environment
8
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc

The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…

Arts & Culture
9
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.

10
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
11
Milwaukee Development Corporation

-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…

Community Improvement
12
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beckum Stapleton Little League Baseball Little League Baseball. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%5%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr20%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%5%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr20%37%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/122
the rest of the field
13%
708/5,666

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 122 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/109
Grantees still filing
70/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $831,275 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION I…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $185,357 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKE…AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 · PhilanthropyAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION …DONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · PhilanthropyDONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONLULAC INSTITUTE INC — $54,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $88,333 · Philanthropy+3 moreMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $145,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION …LULAC Council 333 — $121,000 · OtherLULAC Council 333American Red Cross — $80,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION — $74,336 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $80,000 · OtherURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $95,375 · OtherHISPANIC PROFESSIONALS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $85,000 · Other+46 more — $1,122,073 · Other+46 moreSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $368,823 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY …SHARP LITERACY INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY IN…MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE — $90,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE URBAN L…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY — $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRIST…JOURNEY HOUSE INC — $42,375 · Human Services+9 more — $142,807 · Human Services+9 moreAFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF WISCONSIN INC — $85,000 · EducationAFRICAN A…DISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $75,000 · EducationDISCOVERY…LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $65,100 · EducationLITERACY …Pearls for Teen Girls Inc — $49,000 · EducationPearls fo…Marquette University — $45,000 · EducationMarquette…DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC — $32,000 · EducationDR HOWARD…ALVERNO COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $18,600 · Education+7 more — $68,700 · Education+7 moreMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTEN CHIMNEYS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureARTS AT LARGE INC — $26,000 · Arts & CultureTRUE SKOOL INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $21,200 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $41,700 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $65,250 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $38,544 · HealthFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC — $37,000 · HealthTEAMSMILE INC — $36,869 · HealthLIFESTRIDERS INC — $36,125 · HealthKathy's House Inc — $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $14,490 · Health+5 more — $35,000 · HealthMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $135,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $35,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$1,488,965Other$1,802,784Human Services$874,005Education$458,400Arts & Culture$373,900Health$320,778Housing & Shelter$215,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $831,275 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $368,823 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $185,357 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC — $180,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $145,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $95,375 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE — $90,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHISPANIC PROFESSIONALS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $85,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF WISCONSIN INC — $85,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION — $74,336 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $65,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $65,100 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $60,051 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLULAC INSTITUTE INC — $54,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $53,998 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc — $49,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $47,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBECKUM STAPLETON LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL — $46,500 over 5y, 50% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWBCS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetMarquette University — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $42,375 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPROFESSIONAL DIMENSIONS INC — $41,840 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $40,713 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $39,539 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $38,544 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC — $37,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTEAMSMILE INC — $36,869 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLIFESTRIDERS INC — $36,125 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $33,333 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTEN CHIMNEYS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI99.3× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Weiss Family Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation

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 Brewers Community Foundation Inc 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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How do I get to Brewers Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Brewers Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 122 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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