· Private foundation
Elizabeth J Tellier Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $204,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $355,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cureaids Foundation Inc | $22,500 |
| Kinship Community Food Center | $22,500 |
| Marquette University | $15,000 |
| Pathfinders | $15,000 |
| Journey House | $15,000 |
| META House | $15,000 |
| Elmbrook Humane Society | $15,000 |
| Wellpoint Care Network | $15,000 |
| Three Holy Women Church | $15,000 |
| Planned Parenthood-Wisconsin | $15,000 |
| League of Women Voters of Wisconsin | $15,000 |
| Sojourner Truth House | $10,000 |
| MADACC | $5,000 |
| Happy Endings No Kill Cat Shelter | $3,000 |
| Wisconsin Adopt A Golden Retriever | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of Elizabeth J Tellier Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- CFCUREAIDS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +52% · 100% of their budget
PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +105%
META HOUSE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- HAHOUSING AUTHORITY CITY OF MILWAUKEEone grant, 2018 · $30k
DISCOVERY WORLD LTDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +213%- CFCuraids Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
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,…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
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.
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
The mission of the milwaukee women's center, inc. is to provide innovative, culturally competent holistic care that will empower men, women, and children to live safe, independent, and healthy lives.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cureaids Foundation Inc. 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 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 64 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.
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- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 KIDZ INC ↗
- Who funds WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE WALLS INC ↗
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- Who funds ELMBROOK HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LET IT BE US ↗
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- Who funds SPECIALITY PUREBRED CAT RESCUE OF SOUTHEASTERN WI INC ↗
- Who funds STREET ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GMDA 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Ros Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation 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 Elizabeth J Tellier 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.
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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