· Private foundation
Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $15,152 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS - DAH | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY - DAH | $7,500 |
| MAKING A MARK FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - LEGACY | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST WI TECHNICAL COLLEGE - LEGACY | $5,000 |
| UW MILWAUKEE - LEGACY | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE - LEGACY | $5,000 |
| THE ARC FOND DU LAC | $3,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| UW MADISON - DAH | $3,000 |
| EXPLORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SUN PRAIRIE | $3,000 |
| WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK | $3,000 |
| WISCONSIBS INC | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR DEAF AND BLIND PERSONS | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $137k · revenue +70%
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +5%- MUMarquette University2× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
Funded once
Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +94%- WSWAUKESHA SOUTH BAND BOOSTERSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MDMILWAUKEE DANCING GRANNIES INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
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The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
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.
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
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Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
How this is measured
98 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. 98 of the 169 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIEND INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds Fostering Community Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Ros Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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