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Trusted Fraternal Life
Trusted Fraternal Life's mission is serving communities, providing financial security and enhancing quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $356,712 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,149,097 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $792,385 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
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
- $250k+1 grant · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC | $277,817 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $11,693 |
| CAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILW & WAUK CO | $9,400 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,410 |
| UA RESISTANCE FOUNDATION | $5,892 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $458k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +3%
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +111%
- IFIRISH FESTIVALS INC2× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- NDNOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE INCone grant, 2018 · $55k
- FOFEDERATION OF CROATIAN SOCIETIESone grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +17%
- SCSETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $51k
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…
The management and general maintenance of a cemetery or cemeteries in or near the city of racine, wisconsin, for the use and benefit of such members of the roman catholic congregations of said city and county of racine as may acquire…
MISSION - TO celebrate life and serve with joy. Vision - to provide access to Catholic high schools and offer programs for higher education and career readiness for young women from the Chicago area.
Wisconsin foundation united church of christ, inc. is a catalyst for positive change in the life of the united church of christ in wisconsin; promotes a culture of generosity; and connects people across the ucc in working for a more just…
The mission of the franciscan sisters of chicago service corporation ("fscsc") is to celebrate life and serve with joy. (continued on schedule o).
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
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,…
Promoting and furthering educational opportunities of higher education in chile. provide scholarships for students of the catholic university in chile and to facilitate the transfer of resources, knowledge and experience from the u.s. to…
Support the mission and social services programs of catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha, 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…
In response to god's call to love our neighbor, catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha enables the works of mercy to be received and lived.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Vincent De Paul Society of Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Federation of Croatian Societies. 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 64 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) — 3% 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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 48 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 CATHOLIC FINANCIAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF CROATIAN SOCIETIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOME INC ↗
- Who funds IRISH FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Father Pablos Mission Helpers of the Holy Savior ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Holyland Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Arise Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds LAUDATO SI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THIS TIME TOMORROW 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 · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Catholic Financial Life Foundation Inc · Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund 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 Trusted Fraternal Life 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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