· Private foundation
Emil Ewald Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k123 grants · $384k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL COOPERATING MINISTRIES | $85,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION OF WISCONSIN | $26,000 |
| WATDA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-POTOWATOMI AREA COUNCIL | $12,000 |
| DIVINE REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| JOURNEY 21 | $10,000 |
| ST CHARLES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| NORTH POINT CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HOPE CHURCH OF WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| GEIST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA CO | $10,000 |
| ELMBROOK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THIRST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WI MASONIC CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
106 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 85 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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
- TRThe Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries4× · 2019–2025 · $274k · revenue +1%
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +175%
WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD8× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- LCLAKE COUNTRY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $300k
- CCCROSSPOINT CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCHone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
Provide affordable housing, support, and community to veterans throughout their lifespan.
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…
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hartland Community Band. 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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 249 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC ↗
- Who funds Journey 21 Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MASONIC CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OCONOMOWOC SILVER STREAK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Emil Ewald Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.