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Croen Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$254k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$513kArts & Culture$415kHuman Services$244kEducation$224kHousing & Shelter$173kYouth Development$172kHealth$129kCivil Rights$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION$50,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATRE$42,750
ACTS HOUSING INC$25,000
SECUREFUTURES$15,000
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC$12,016
UNITED WAY GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY$10,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$7,500
JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE$7,500
COLLEGE POSSIBLE MILWAUKEE$7,000
ALL-IN MILWAUKEE$5,000
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN$5,000
NORTH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,000
SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION$5,000
COALITION FOR YOUTH CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SECURE FUTURES: $12k → 11%SHARP LITERACY INC: $5k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $5k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $5k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $5k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $4k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $4k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $3k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $3k → 17%SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $2k → 17%SECUREFUTURES: $15k → 17%SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 17%SECUREFUTURES: $15k → 17%SECUREFUTURES: $15k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 47 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+69%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +91%
  • ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +504%
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • SF
    SECURED FUTURES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +69%
  • LC
    LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • JOURNEY HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -5%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
3
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
4
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
5
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

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…

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6
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

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7
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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8
Milwaukee Jewish Day School Inc

Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.

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9
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
10
Employ Milwaukee Inc

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,…

Employment
11
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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12
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports LeaguesRegional Economic Developme…Family Support and Social S…Minority & Niche Business C…Crisis Support & Advocacy S…Faith-Based Community Servi…Local Philanthropic Foundat…Public Arts & Culture Organ…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%5%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr20%41%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%2%5–10yr17%6%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr15%8%35–55yr20%59%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
12%
709/5,742

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $381,600 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $90,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWA…GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATIO…CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION — $85,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCI…SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · OtherSECURE FUTURES FOUNDATIO…MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $49,180 · OtherMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY…COALITION FOR YOUTH CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC — $34,500 · OtherCOALITION FOR YOUTH CHIL…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $22,700 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION — $20,500 · OtherMETA HOUSE INC — $20,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $57,266 · OtherURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INCSafe & Sound Inc — $17,000 · Other+11 more — $67,000 · Other+11 moreMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $280,250 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY…MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE YOUTH ART…MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $29,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY …MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES …SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMI…SHARP LITERACY INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY…UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNI…Sherman Phoenix Foundation — $20,000 · Human ServicesSherman Phoeni…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $18,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY …MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $18,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE JEWI…SECURED FUTURES INC — $12,000 · Human Services+5 more — $18,450 · Human Services+5 moreCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $65,500 · EducationCOLLEGE POS…Pearls for Teen Girls Inc — $52,500 · EducationPearls for …ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC — $35,000 · EducationALL-IN MILW…READING AND MATH INC — $22,000 · EducationREADING AND…NORTH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · EducationNORTH PARK …QUEST SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC — $11,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $8,000 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · EducationACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $157,500 · Housing & ShelterACTS COMM…WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterWISCONSIN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $30,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $20,250 · HealthABCD INC — $11,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · Health
Philanthropy$502,600Other$453,146Arts & Culture$351,250Human Services$254,450Education$211,000Housing & Shelter$172,500Health$113,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $381,600 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $280,250 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $157,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION — $85,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $65,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $57,266 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc — $52,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $49,180 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC — $33,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $22,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetREADING AND MATH INC — $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $20,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSherman Phoenix Foundation — $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION — $18,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc — $17,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECURED FUTURES INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetABCD INC — $11,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetQUEST SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW CONCEPT SELF DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $7,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland — $950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds READING AND MATH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Sherman Phoenix Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SECURED FUTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds ABCD INC ↗
  • Who funds QUEST SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Anon Charitable TrustMilwaukee Jewish Fede…Peck Foundation Milwa…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Brewers Community Fou…Baird Foundation IncRite-Hite Foundation …
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI50.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite 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 Croen 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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