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Ellamae Siebert 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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Health$192kEducation$164kHousing & Shelter$95kFood & Nutrition$41kScience & Tech$40kAnimals$10kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$15,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION$15,000
MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION$10,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$7,500
LITERARY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE CENTER: $5k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE: $15k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $41k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WIS: $15k → 17%FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE: $15k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WIS: $15k → 17%FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE: $10k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN IN: $25k → 17%FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE: $10k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%DISCOVERY WORLD: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WI FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%HUNGER TASK FORCE: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%HUNGER TASK FORCE: $8k → 17%HUNGER TASK FORCE: $8k → 17%WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 17%HUNGER TASK FORCE: $5k → 17%WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $15k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $15k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $12k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10k → 17%UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%KATHY'S HOUSE: $25k → 17%KATHY'S HOUSE: $10k → 17%KATHY'S HOUSE: $10k → 17%KATHY'S HOUSE: $10k → 17%KATHY'S HOUSE: $10k → 17%KATHY'S HOUSE: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE HABIT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE HABIT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE HABIT FOR HUMANITY: $5k → 17%HUNGER TASK FORCE: $10k → 17%LITERARY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$509k · 9 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$509k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+78%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +39%
  • MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +283%
  • UR
    UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • HC
    Hope Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +87%
  • DISCOVERY WORLD LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +78%

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
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
2
Habitat for Humanity of Wisconsin Inc

Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.

Housing & Shelter
3
The Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development Inc

The partnership is committed to housing for everyone because it's essential for building healthy communities. we build effective public-private partnerships to expand access to affordable housing options. we do this by directly developing…

Recreation & Sports
4
Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals
5
Uwm At Waukesha Foundation Inc

To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus

6
Friendship House of Milwaukee
7
Habitat for Humanity of Waukesha County Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

8
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

9
Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

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…

Environment
10
University Research Park Incorporated

The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.

Education
11
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
12
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Discovery World Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $156,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIO…+2 more — $7,500 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $62,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $40,500 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WIS — $30,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISHope Center Inc — $5,000 · OtherKathy's House Inc — $75,000 · HealthKathy's House IncPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD O…FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY — $50,000 · Public BenefitFAMILY PRO…MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterMILWAUKEE…UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $10,000 · Animals
Education$163,500Other$137,500Health$100,000Public Benefit$50,000Housing & Shelter$45,000Community Improvement$40,000Animals$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $156,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKathy's House Inc — $75,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY — $50,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation IncWI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc · Schoenleber Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Marjorie Siebert Aylen Foundation · R a Stevens Family Foundation · Nicholas Family Foundation 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 Ellamae Siebert 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Ellamae Siebert Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Ellamae Siebert 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 13 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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