· Public charity
Donald Driver Foundation Inc
The mission of the donald driver foundation is to display strong hands, strong minds, and loving hearts to serve as a hand up, not a hand 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.
The 3 grants below total $200,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $213,370 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,370 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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $125,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SE WISCONSIN | $55,000 |
| VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +61% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC5× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +7%- JBJockey Being Family Foundation Ltd4× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +61%
- TKTHE K I S FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHEASTERN WIone grant, 2021 · $80k
- SFST FRANCIS CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2017 · $40k
ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CAREone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +18%
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.
Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…
Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Inspiring philanthropy, serving donors, strengthening communities, now and for future generations.
Improve the quality of life for youth and families in wisconsin focusing on youth education, health, wellness and community betterment
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,…
The milwaukee community crossroads (mcc) cultivates a vibrant milwaukee community by helping individuals, families and neighborhoods access basic needs, overcome barriers and connect to opportunities.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jockey Being Family Foundation Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 44 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 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Jockey Being Family Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC PROFESSIONALS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS INC ↗
- Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds Brewers Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE YABUKI FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORE TOO LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds CATALPA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Chris Howell Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE K I S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN 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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation 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 Donald Driver 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.
- More Too Life Inc — 28% of income from government
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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