How much did EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

adult youth

2020

adult youth

2021

adult youth

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$50k–250k4 grants · $343k
$250k+7 grants · $3.7M

$431,032

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION$756,461
EQUUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS$570,021
MAXIMUS INC$543,128
CENTER FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY INC$466,874
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC$443,181
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC$440,716
DYNAMIC WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS$431,032
MATC FOUNDATION$106,500
MILWAUKEE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC$89,525
WAUKESHA COUNTY$74,229
HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF MILWAUKEE$73,066
MINDFUL STAFFING SOLUTIONS LLC$14,550
MILW URBAN LEAGUE GREATER$11,250

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$24M · 24 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$24M

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

-8%

Still filing today

50%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalOther

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 MILWAUKEE INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +132% · 74% of their budget
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +21%
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WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +11%

Funded once

JOURNEY HOUSE
one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -11%
THE RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -8%

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.

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Employ Milwaukee Inc

Build a strong workforce development system to ensure a skilled and productive workforce.

Employment

Milwaukee Careers Cooperative

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…

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Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

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.

Employment

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Central Minnesota Jobs & Training

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence

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Workforce Development Board

Forging strategic partnerships for economic growth.

Employment

Milwaukee Area Labor Council

A not for profit organization providing education, legislative, publication and labor activities.

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Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment

The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board will create, and continue to improve, innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.

Public Benefit

Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of

Advocate for business in the metropolitan milwaukee area

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Midwest Energy Research Consortium Inc

Driving innovation for the energy, power, and controls sector by synchronizing market insights, technology innovation and talent & start-up development into a new innovation engine for economic development and growth.

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United Food & Commercial Workers

Labor union representing food and commercial workers, primarily in southeast michigan.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

12/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,405,395Human Services$2,504,071Youth Development$1,941,105Crime & Legal$1,479,346Philanthropy$1,220,238Employment$1,018,348Community Improvement$707,043

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 906031721 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 74% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Employ Milwaukee Inc?

Find your warmest path to Employ Milwaukee Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?