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Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$209k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$484kEnvironment$148kHealth$102kPublic Safety & Disaster$88kHuman Services$60kEducation$46kAnimals$34kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $129k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
NEXT ACT THEATRE$7,500
SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER$6,500
SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER FRIE$6,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$6,000
CREATE WISCONSIN (SMALL ARTS & CULT$5,000
UWM FOUNDATION INC PRE-APPROVED$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN IN$5,000
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER$5,000
ABCD INC (AFTER BREAST CANCER DIA$5,000
JOURNEY HOUSE INC$5,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY$4,240
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 (FY20–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DOGS IN VESTS: $3k → 8%CREATING A FAMILY: $2k → 13%DOGS IN VESTS: $2k → 8%DOGS IN VESTS: $2k → 8%DOGSINVESTS INC: $2k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $3k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE IN: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $4k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 17%SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%SECURE FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER: $3k → 17%KIDS MATTER INC: $3k → 17%KIDS MATTER INC: $2k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $2k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $2k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $2k → 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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$906k · 63 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
29

Total granted

$906k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+2%

Still filing today

92%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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
    5× · 2021–2025 · $121k · revenue +166%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +13%
  • FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $56k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • SA
    SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • Mequon Nature Preserve Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -27%
  • KM
    KINSHIP MKE (KINSHIP COMUNITY FOOD CENTER)
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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2
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
3
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
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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6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Montessori Institute of Milwaukee Inc

Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods

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10
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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11
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…

Arts & Culture
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Feast of Crispian. 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 34 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr20%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr20%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/85
the rest of the field
12%
710/5,703

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

85 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. 85 of the 108 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
57/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $120,750 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INCMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INCNEXT ACT THEATRE INC — $47,500 · Arts & CultureNEXT ACT THEATRE INCMILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $27,237 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC+22 more — $97,690 · Arts & Culture+22 moreAMERICAN RED CROSS — $88,030 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $42,535 · OtherMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA I…SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER — $11,700 · Other+45 more — $191,046 · Other+45 moreFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC — $55,800 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF S…URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $36,702 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOG…RIVER REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 · EnvironmentRIVER REVITA…MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · EnvironmentMequon Nature Preserve Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 · Human ServicesGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesDOGSINVESTS INC — $8,300 · Human ServicesOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $7,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHEAR Wisconsin Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesKIDS MATTER INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $4,500 · Human ServicesPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $3,500 · Human Services+3 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthCENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC — $9,000 · HealthABCD INC — $7,000 · HealthGOOD FRIEND INC — $6,000 · HealthISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC — $4,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · HealthEX FABULA INC — $12,500 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · EducationDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $7,250 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $4,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $6,000 · AnimalsPRIMATES INCORPORATED — $4,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY — $4,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD — $3,500 · Animals
Arts & Culture$403,177Other$333,311Environment$117,502Human Services$76,800Health$63,000Education$37,250Animals$17,500

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 REPERTORY THEATER INC — $120,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC — $55,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEXT ACT THEATRE INC — $47,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $42,535 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $36,702 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $27,237 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC — $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEX FABULA INC — $12,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC MILWAUKEE INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVILLA TERRACE MUSEUM AND GARDENS LTD — $10,440 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeast of Crispian — $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSTEM FORWARD INC — $9,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $8,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABOVE THE CLOUDS INC — $8,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDOGSINVESTS INC — $8,300 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $7,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABCD INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD FRIEND INC — $6,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI — $6,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK ARTS MKE INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMequon Nature Preserve Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDANCEWORKS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS MATTER INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPIANO ARTS OF WISCONSIN INC — $4,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKESHORE STATE PARK — $4,250 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPRIMATES INCORPORATED — $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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.

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…Green Bay Packers Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Bert L and Patricia S…Youth Foundation IncRalph Evinrude Founda…Gardner FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Richard and Ethel Her…The Ros FoundationAnon Charitable Trust
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI109.2× affinity58 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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust

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 Dorothy Inbusch 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    37report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 108 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.

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