· Private foundation
Community Trust Norman a Schowalter
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Community Trust Norman a Schowalter’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Community Trust Norman a Schowalter named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $62k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k20 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRESHOLD INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| DR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC | $7,500 |
| Lakeland College | $6,000 |
| Washington County Campus Foundation | $5,500 |
| MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART | $5,000 |
| WEST BEND FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $3,000 |
| VOLUNTEER CENTER OF WA CNTY | $3,000 |
| WEST BEND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $2,000 |
| Girl Scouts Great Blue Heron Council | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ABUSED FAMILIES | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON CNTY HISTORICAL SOC | $2,000 |
| BAY-LAKES COUNCIL BSA | $2,000 |
| FAMILY CENTER OF WA CNTY | $1,500 |
| BIG BROTHERSSISTERS OF WA CNTY | $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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Washington County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roots and Branches Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Cedar Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Froedtert West Bend Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOTS AND BRANCHES 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: Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Prescott Family Foundation Inc · Elmore & Alyce Kraemer Char Tr · Baird Foundation Inc · Phyllis & Walter Malzahn Charitable Trust · Westbury Bank Charitable Foundation · William Stark Jones Foundation Katherine W Lambert Co-Trustee · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation
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 Trust Norman a Schowalter 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.