· Public charity
Cream City Foundation Inc
Cream City Foundation serves as a catalyst for social change on behalf of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT communities in southeastern Wisconsin.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $100,360 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $179,529 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,169 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 $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MPD MOUNTED PATROL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC | $12,500 |
| CAPTAIN FREDERICK PABST MANSION INC | $11,000 |
| MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN INC | $9,000 |
| MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY (WHS) | $5,360 |
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 (FY19–20, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% 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.
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 madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
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 mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
The milwaukee public museum inspires curiosity, excites minds and increases desire to preserve and protect our world's natural and cultural diversity through exhibitions, educational programs, collections and research.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
Madison teachers incorporated (mti) is a labor union representing teachers, substitute teachers, educational assistants, clerical/technical employees, and school security assistants who are employed by the madison metropolitan school…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mpd Mounted Patrol Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 DIVERSE AND RESILIENT INC ↗
- Who funds MPD MOUNTED PATROL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PABST MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Cream City 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.
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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