· Private foundation
Charter Manufacturing Company 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $693k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN IN | $500,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $200,000 |
| GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC | $76,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC | $67,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC | $50,000 |
| CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC | $50,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| NORTHERN OZAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $34,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $33,000 |
| YMCA KETTLE MORAINE | $33,000 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN MILWAUKEE | $25,000 |
| SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC | $25,000 |
| VERSITI | $10,000 |
| ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +54%
Cornell University3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +59%
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +59%
Funded once
- STSCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INCone grant, 2017 · $35k
- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +301%
ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +102%
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 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 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,…
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 milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
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…
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.
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Teens Grow Greens Inc. 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 52 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) — 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 11% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 75 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.
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- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds VERSITI INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Marcus Corporation Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Brewers Community Foundation 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 Charter Manufacturing Company 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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