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Crysdahl Foundation Inc at a glance

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Crysdahl 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.

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$79kHealth$61kYouth Development$55kEnvironment$17kEducation$13kRecreation & Sports$13kAnimals$12kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$20,000
MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY$17,500
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE$10,000
SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER$10,000
WOMEN'S CARE CENTER$7,000
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY$4,000
NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
MILWAUKEE ROWING CLUB$2,000
CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA$1,500
ARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION$500
KINSHIP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER$334
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 17%YWCA SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $500 → 17%PATHFINDERS: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$249k · 20 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$249k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+39%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +19%
  • WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +61%
  • META HOUSE INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $6k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +57%
  • FS
    FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -10%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -56%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

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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
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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4
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

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

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5
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
6
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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7
Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee Inc

A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future

Education
8
Artworks for Milwaukee Inc

ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.

Arts & Culture
9
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

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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10
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

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.

Employment
11
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee; the most unlike its peers is Shorewood 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY: $47,500 · OtherMORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACYPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $46,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER: $17,000 · OtherSCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTERWOMEN'S CARE CENTER: $14,000 · OtherWOMEN'S CARE CENTERCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $11,000 · OtherCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INCMETA HOUSE INC: $5,500 · Other+15 more: $19,154 · Other+15 moreNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKE…+3 more: $4,500 · Human Services+3 moreNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 · Recreation & SportsALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MILWAUKEE ROWING CLUB: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,000 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $1,500 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,250 · AnimalsARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureRENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC: $500 · Arts & CultureNEXT ACT THEATRE INC: $500 · Arts & CultureKINSHIP MKE INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionMADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $2,000 · Education
Other$160,654Human Services$74,500Recreation & Sports$14,250Animals$10,750Arts & Culture$5,500Food & Nutrition$4,500Education$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $70,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $7,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKINSHIP MKE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE ROWING CLUB: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT ACT THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Baird Foundation IncGreen Bay Packers Fou…United Way of Greater…Richard and Ethel Her…Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Dorothy Inbusch Found…Gardner FoundationRalph Evinrude Founda…Harley-Davidson Found…Otto Bremer Trust
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI35.5× affinity15 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 · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Crysdahl Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Crysdahl Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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