How much did COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC grant in FY2024?

Human Services$6.8MCrime & Legal$3.3MHousing & Shelter$1.3MEducation$1.1MHealth$742kYouth Development$428kCommunity Improvement$377kEmployment$242kPhilanthropy$8kOther$3.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

empowerproductsworkforceinspirefull potentialbuildsubstance

2019

substance

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k13 grants · $341k
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
$250k+2 grants · $989k

$37,241

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE PARENTING NETWORK$518,662
NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT INC$470,421
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER$225,333
PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC$169,995
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$130,000
MILWAUKEE CHRISTIAN CENTER$129,944
PEARLS FOR TEEN GIRLS$124,731
WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH$80,148
END DOMESTIC ABUSE WISCONSIN$71,045
WEST ALLIS - WEST MILWAUKEE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$70,981
PENFIELD CHILDRENS CENTER$53,105
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$49,379
DIVERSE & RESILIENT INC$37,241
OAK CREEK HEALTH DEPARTMENT$34,647
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE$33,618

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $6.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$17M · 35 repeat orgs$658k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$436k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+8%

Still filing today

60%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

NC
NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +39% · 41% of their budget
TP
THE PARENTING NETWORK INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +1% · 37% of their budget
PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +105%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE
one grant, 2017 · $200k
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -43%
RA
RESCUE AGENCY PUBLIC BENEFIT
one grant, 2020 · $35k

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.

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

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

Dane County Parent Council Inc

To change the lives of children and families through education and supportive services.

Education

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee's mission is to strengthen city neighborhoods by combining and enhancing the assets of our partner agencies to improve the quality of life for urban families.

Human Services

Milwaukee Center for Children

To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic…

Human Services

Cornerhouse

To partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal

Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

The development of social and life skills in children through recreational and informal education program opportunities.

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Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il

Provide therapeutic services to youth in educational, community, & residential care settings.

Human Services

Cap Services Inc

Transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services

United Way of Portage County Inc

The united way of portage county brings people and resources together to achieve measurable results that improve people's lives and strengthen our community.

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Youthlink

To support and empower young people on their journey to self-reliance.

Human Services

Journey House Inc

Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker's Point Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Hope Council On Alcohol & Other Drug. 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 49 years old; the field is 20. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

1,075/12,360

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.

05the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

23/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$6,838,514Other$4,044,229Crime & Legal$3,277,741Housing & Shelter$1,303,501Education$1,117,190Health$742,099Youth Development$427,986

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.

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.

United Way of Greater Milwaukee &WI46× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Burke Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation 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 organisation COMMUNITY ADVOCATES 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WEST ALLIS-WEST MILWAUKEE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 392000593 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WEST ALLIS-WEST MILWAUKEE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 74% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Community Advocates Inc?

Find your warmest path to Community Advocates Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Advocates Inc?

More from the funding graph

COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Advocates Inc?

More from the funding graph