· Private foundation
Community 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 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC | $20,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $3,500 |
| CEDAR LAKES CONVERSATION FOUNDATION | $3,100 |
| OLD WORLD WI FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| CHANNEL 1036 FRIENDS INC - IND GIV | $2,000 |
| HONOURS INC | $2,000 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| ST LUKE LUTHERAN CHURCH ELCA | $1,500 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $1,500 |
| NAMI WASHINGTON COUNTY INC | $1,500 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAUKESHA | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +185%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +70%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- FOFORCE-FACING OUR RISK OF CANCER EMPOWERED INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +20%
- DJDR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -85%
- ICINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS - WASH CTYone grant, 2022 · $1k
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 wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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.
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 wisconsin hospital association, inc.'s (wha) mission is advocating for the ability of its members to provide high quality health care services to wisconsin communities.the association fulfills this mission through the following values:…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mile Monsters 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 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 69 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 Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds WAUWATOSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS US ↗
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAD LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds USO WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ELMBROOK HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TROY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds HONOURS INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUWATOSA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Hauske Family Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn · Melitta S and Joan M Pick 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 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.
- Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc — 15% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Venice Theatre Inc — 0% 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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