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Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trust No 1

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$264kHuman Services$196kArts & Culture$138kEducation$102kEnvironment$36kFood & Nutrition$34kHousing & Shelter$21kPhilanthropy$20kYouth Development$2kOther$329k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $97k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER$25,000
VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE$20,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$16,310
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER$15,215
TEENS GROW GREENS$10,000
PREVENT BLINDNESS$10,000
SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER$7,500
Carmen High School of Science and Technology Inc$6,937
PATHFINDERS$5,000
GREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$4,280
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$3,883
SIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$2,272
NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$1,375
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 (FY17–25, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOMEN'S CENTER: $11k → 5%WOMENS CENTER: $10k → 5%LIFE'S CONNECTION: $5k → 5%GREATER GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 17%NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $10k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $5k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $5k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $328 → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $25k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $10k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $25k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $7k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $5k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 32 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
16

Total granted

$1.0M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+40%

Still filing today

75%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +36%
  • CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +142%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $68k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • OUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +16%
  • WP
    WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $21k · revenue +140%
  • THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +39%

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
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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2
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
3
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
4
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
5
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

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.

Health
6
Center for Healthcare Careers of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…

Health
7
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
8
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc

The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
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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11
Employ Milwaukee Inc

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,…

Employment
12
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Teens Grow Greens Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr15%40%35–55yr20%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr15%37%35–55yr20%35%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/42
the rest of the field
12%
710/5,746

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

41 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. 41 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
34/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $80,304 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION — $58,538 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONPREVENT BLINDNESS — $49,609 · OtherPREVENT BLINDNESSVERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $33,049 · OtherVERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTESCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER — $19,936 · OtherSCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTERSCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER — $18,402 · OtherMETA HOUSE INC — $17,851 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE — $13,450 · OtherWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $20,918 · OtherWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Other+10 more — $44,826 · Other+10 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $67,888 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISC…VERSITI WISCONSIN INC — $60,000 · HealthVERSITI WISCONSIN INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $49,277 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WIS…HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC — $45,611 · HealthHOPE STREET MINISTRY INCOUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $25,000 · HealthOUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH …VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $16,682 · HealthVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION…SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PE…UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $39,508 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CE…THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $20,716 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S CENTER …MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $20,098 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CENTER FO…PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC — $14,054 · Human ServicesPATHFINDERS MILWAUK…SERENITY INNS INC — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $16,375 · Human Services+4 moreMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $60,599 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYM…MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $38,210 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE YOU…MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $14,691 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART…FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE — $12,852 · Arts & CultureFIRST STAGE M…Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $12,128 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haym…CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC — $72,654 · EducationCARMEN HIG…THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION — $15,000 · EducationTHE UNIVER…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $11,750 · EducationCOLLEGE PO…+1 more — $2,110 · EducationFOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $14,514 · EnvironmentSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC — $11,244 · EnvironmentRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentTEENS GROW GREENS INC — $34,489 · Food & Nutrition
Other$371,883Health$264,458Human Services$195,751Arts & Culture$138,480Education$101,514Environment$35,758Food & Nutrition$34,489

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 budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC — $72,654 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $67,888 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $60,599 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERSITI WISCONSIN INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $49,277 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC — $45,611 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $39,508 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $38,210 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC — $34,489 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $20,918 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $20,716 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $20,098 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC — $17,851 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $16,682 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $14,691 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $14,514 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC — $14,054 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE — $13,450 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE — $12,852 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $12,272 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $12,128 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $11,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC — $11,244 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSERENITY INNS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE'S CONNECTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND VISION INC — $3,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Center Inc — $2,517 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN PHILANTHROPY NETWORK INC — $2,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $2,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $1,807 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $441 over 1y, 0.0% 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…United Way of Greater…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Green Bay Packers Fou…Baird Foundation IncMilwaukee Jewish Fede…Anon Charitable TrustHarley-Davidson Found…Jerome J and Dorothy …
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI52.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus

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 Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trust No 1 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trust No 1?

    Find your warmest path to Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trust No 1 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 50 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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