· Private foundation
Emory T Clark Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $35,000 |
| LIFESTRIDERS | $30,000 |
| JOURNEY21 | $30,000 |
| ZACHARIAH'S ACRES | $30,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $25,000 |
| SHEPHERDS COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER | $20,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $20,000 |
| CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS | $15,000 |
| DISCOVERY WORLD LTD | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR HEALTH | $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 (FY17–25, $558k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- ZAZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +289%
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC4× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +37%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- PCPENEFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTERone grant, 2022 · $30k
- CWCHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
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…
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
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…
Provide training and informational materials to families of children and youth with disabilities to enable them to understand and use the supports and services provided by private and public health care and community systems.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy 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 29 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) — 2% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 77 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.
- Who funds ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESTRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds Journey 21 Inc ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds Chix 4 A Cause LTD ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MILWAUKEE AREA DOMESTIC ANIMAL CONTROL COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls 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 · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Youth Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family 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 Emory T Clark Family Foundation 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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