· Private foundation
Davidson & Harley Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| STEM FORWARD | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $4,000 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL INC | $4,000 |
| VETSNET WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK | $4,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY WISCONSIN CHAPTER | $4,000 |
| ARC ADDICTION RESOURCE COUNCIL | $4,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| KIDS FROM WISCONSIN | $4,000 |
| WISCONSIN PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
| THE PARENTING NETWORK | $3,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE | $3,000 |
| LAD LAKE INC | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHCAMBRIDGE HISTORIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIO9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +557% · 34% of their budget
- MYMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +115%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CCCURATIVE CARE INCone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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,…
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cambridge Historic School Foundatio. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 CAMBRIDGE HISTORIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STEM FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD ↗
- Who funds PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAD LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA POTAWATOMI AREA COUNCIL-OPERATING ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUR CHOICE TO LIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CURATIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Teen Challenge of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI
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 Davidson & Harley Fund 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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