· Public charity
Community Advocates Inc
The mission of community advocates, inc.
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 25 grants below total $2,393,519 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,892,443 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,498,924 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $341k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $989k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $6.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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
- NCNEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +39% · 41% of their budget
- TPTHE PARENTING NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +1% · 37% of their budget
PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +105%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2017 · $200k
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +78%- RARESCUE AGENCY PUBLIC BENEFIT LLCone grant, 2020 · $35k
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.
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.
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.
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…
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
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.
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
Workforce development planning, policy guidance, and oversight of workforce development programs in the west central wisconsin workforce development area
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employ Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Council On Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 52 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 NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST ALLIS WEST MILWAUKEE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIVERSE AND RESILIENT INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER'S POINT YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ALLIANCE FOR INFANT MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds END DOMESTIC ABUSE WISCONSIN THE WI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SIRONA RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTCARE 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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust
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 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.
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.