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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
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k 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
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $369k · revenue +32%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +104%
MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +57%
DISCOVERY WORLD LTDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +117%- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTYgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
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…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
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…
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…
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.
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,…
-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…
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.
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 field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC PROFESSIONALS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LULAC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds BECKUM STAPLETON LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds WBCS INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL DIMENSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
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 · 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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