How much does Community Advocates Inc give?

Community Advocates Inc reported 25 itemized grants totaling $2,393,519, out of $5,892,443 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Community Advocates Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (41%), Crime & Legal (19%), Health (17%).

Who are Community Advocates Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Neu-Life Community Development Inc ($3.2M), The Parenting Network Inc ($3.2M), Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc ($1.4M).

Does Community Advocates Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Advocates Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.

Where is Community Advocates Inc based?

Community Advocates Inc is based in WI.

Community Advocates Inc

Community Advocates Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Community Advocates Inc

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$5.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$519k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$7.2MCrime & Legal$3.3MHealth$2.9MHuman Services$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCommunity Improvement$377kEmployment$242kEducation$71kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 25 grants below total $2,393,519, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,892,443 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,498,924 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$17M · 35 repeat orgs$639k to everyone else

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

$417k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+33%

Still filing today

60%

46%

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

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +104%
MC
MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +51%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
one grant, 2017 · $200k
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +78%
RA
RESCUE AGENCY PUBLIC BENEFIT LLC
one grant, 2020 · $35k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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 and Youth Inc

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

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

Family Service Agency of Waukesha County Inc

Building stronger communities, strengthening families, and empowering individuals through compassionate, life changing programs and behavioral health services.

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

West Central Wisconsin Workforce Development Board Inc

Workforce development planning, policy guidance, and oversight of workforce development programs in the west central wisconsin workforce development area

Employment

Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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Impact Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services Inc

To provide services which heighten awareness, prevent alcohol and other drug abuse, and help people seek information or assistance to change their lives, for good.

Health

Care of Southeastern Michigan

To strengthen resiliency in people and their communities through prevention, education, and services that improve the quality of life

Health

Positive Alternatives Inc

Through a continuum of family and strength based services, positive alternatives strives to equip at-risk youth and young adults with the social, emotional, and development skills needed to flourish.

Human Services

Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employ Milwaukee Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

21/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$6,838,514Other$4,026,048Crime & Legal$3,277,741Housing & Shelter$1,303,501Education$1,117,190Health$742,099Youth Development$446,167

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI43.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Advocates Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Advocates Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home