· Public charity
Employ Milwaukee Inc
The mission of employ milwaukee, inc.
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 13 grants below total $3,591,950 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,574,305 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,982,355 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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $537k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DYNAMIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS | $1,162,170 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC | $669,855 |
| EQUUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS | $655,881 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC | $277,573 |
| WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING | $253,105 |
| MILWAUKEE WATER WORKS | $141,232 |
| MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT | $96,585 |
| MILWAUKEE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC | $90,351 |
| CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE CAREERS | $73,703 |
| WAUKESHA COUNTY | $71,466 |
| JOURNEY HOUSE | $64,086 |
| UNITED MIGRANT OPPORTUNITY SERVICES DBA UMOS INC | $24,300 |
| GREATER MILWAUKEE NATIONAL | $11,643 |
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, $4.7M) 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +132% · 74% of their budget
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +21%- WRWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP6× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- LELABOR EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $980k · revenue -99%
- RIROSS INNOVATIVE EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $181k
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $107k · revenue -4%
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 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,…
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.
Workforce development planning, policy guidance, and oversight of workforce development programs in the west central wisconsin workforce development area
The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Milwaukee careers cooperative is a non profit employment agency that provides unique employment services, such as education, placement & transportation to assist individuals to obtain and maintain employment. milwaukee careers cooperative…
Workforce development board of south central wisconsin, inc.'s mission is to build public and private partnerships that support innovation and excellence in workforce development.in furtherance of its mission the organization dedicates…
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
Our mission at northwest cep is to create connections that will empower individuals and groups to drive workforce and community growth.
Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…
Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…
Leverage national and local grant resources to ensure that low-income, low-skilled individuals have access to training and workforce development services and to support employers in meeting their workforce needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Veterans Issues 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 34 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Self Sufficiency Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FULL EMPLOYMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LABOR EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED MIGRANT OPPORTUNITY SERVICES UMOS INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF WORKFORCE INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHCOTT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UAW- Labor Employment and Training Corp ↗
- Who funds Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE CAREERS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCARE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Veterans Issues Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HISPANIC NURSES 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 · The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Hunger Task Force Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Newthreads of Hope Inc · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Youth 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 Employ Milwaukee 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.