· Private foundation
Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $408k
- $250k+1 grant · $409k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $409,409 |
| THE FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY | $157,516 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $130,000 |
| MILWAUKEE BALLET | $120,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY DANCE FESTIVAL | $30,000 |
| NORTH SHORE LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER | $25,000 |
| SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC | $25,000 |
| MARCUS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $7,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $5,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE FILM INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k 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
- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC4× · 2018–2024 · $618k · revenue +8%
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +19%
FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $413k · revenue +38%
Funded once
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -4%
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTDone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -57%
LYNDEN INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
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.
Making the arts accessible to all
To provide the finest collaborative environment for: supporting performing arts training and education for a diverse population of youth; nurturing youth from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, instilling life-skills…
The mission of madison opera is to produce operas of the highest artistic standards.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
Support the south milwaukee performing arts center and community arts
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.
The mission of Arts @ Large is to activate Milwaukees communities to build environments that support arts-rich, lifelong learning. The organization uses the arts to cultivate inclusive and innovative communities where students, their…
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…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code ("irc") and for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to…
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
Monroe street arts center engages a community of learners in exploring the arts and developing the creative self
Orchestral program for communit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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 MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Imagine MKEInc ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds LYNDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM 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: Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Baird Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Andy Nunemaker Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust 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.