· Private foundation
Elizabeth J Tellier Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kinship Community Food Center | $22,500 |
| Cureaids Foundation Inc | $22,500 |
| League of Women Voters of Wisconsin | $15,000 |
| Planned Parenthood-Wisconsin | $15,000 |
| Three Holy Women Church | $15,000 |
| Elmbrook Humane Society | $15,000 |
| Journey House | $15,000 |
| Marquette University | $15,000 |
| META House | $15,000 |
| Wellpoint Care Network | $15,000 |
| Pathfinders | $15,000 |
| Sojourner Truth House | $10,000 |
| MADACC | $5,000 |
| Bichon & Little Buddies Rescue | $3,000 |
| Happy Endings No Kill Cat Shelter | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of Elizabeth J Tellier Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 21 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCUREAIDS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +52% · 100% of their budget
PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +104%
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%- KCKinship Comm Foodone grant, 2024 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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,…
To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic…
-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…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Break down barriers that keep people from living full and meaningful lives. Thr organization does this by building authentic human connections, advocating with the people we support and creating opportunities for holistic and lasting…
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.
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…
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…
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
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.
To provide individuals with a supportive and transformational sober living community that is rooted in the principle that all people deserve to be treated with dignity regardless of circumstance
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC ↗
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- 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 ↗
- Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELMBROOK HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LET IT BE US ↗
- Who funds Bichon and Little Buddies Rescue Inc ↗
- 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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Self Sufficiency Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth J Tellier Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth J Tellier Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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