· Private foundation
Brookbank Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee | $100,000 |
| Florentine Opera Company | $34,500 |
| Palm Springs International Film Society | $30,000 |
| North Shore Library | $25,000 |
| North Shore Library | $25,000 |
| Wisconsin Aquatics Association Inc | $12,000 |
| Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center | $10,000 |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee | $10,000 |
| Milwaukee Art Museum | $10,000 |
| United Performing Arts Fund | $10,000 |
| Friend of Boerner Botanical Gardens Inc | $6,000 |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $5,000 |
| Childrens Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| Milwaukee Ballet | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,068 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +37%
FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $242k · revenue +44%- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +29%
- TLTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGOone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +24%
- HBHarvard Business Schoolone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
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.
The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
To cultivate civil discourse, increase understanding, and create common ground by connecting wisconsin people and ideas.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
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…
Our mission is to be the premier source for the personal empowerment of municipal clerks in wisconsin through education, professional development, and the promotion of excellence.
Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Amundsen. 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 58 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 47 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 THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds WALTER SCHROEDER AQUATIC CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN AQUATICS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERSITI INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ACT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · The Ros Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · National Center for Housing Management Inc
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 Brookbank 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.
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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