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Eppstein Uhen Tennessen Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$163kFood & Nutrition$111kHealth$110kHuman Services$88kEmployment$83kEducation$70kHousing & Shelter$16kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOURNEY HOUSE INC$22,700
OPERATION FRESH START INC$19,325
VALLEY KIDS FOUNDATION INC$16,500
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$12,500
MAYDM INC$10,000
FOSTER THE VILLAGE INC$10,000
CENTRO HISPANO INC$10,000
SP MILWAUKEE PROPCOL LLC$6,000
NAIOP WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC$5,000
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VALLEY KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $17k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY: $5k → 7%FOSTER THE VILLAGE INC: $10k → 10%FOSTER THE VILLAGE: $10k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $23k → 17%CENTRO HISPANO INC: $10k → 10%JOURNEY HOUSE: $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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$369k · 15 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

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.

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$369k
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+9%

Still filing today

80%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • CO
    Childrens Oncology Services Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $64k · revenue +47%
  • OF
    OPERATION FRESH START INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +64%
  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +13%
  • GM
    GROUNDWORKS MKE
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $32k

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 Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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2
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
3
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire

To nurture, educate and enrich children and youth for life-long success.

Human Services
4
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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5
Employ Milwaukee Inc

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,…

Employment
6
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
7
Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh Inc

To improve the lives of children and families.

Youth Development
8
Goodwill Industries of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

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,…

Human Services
9
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
10
Boys & Girls Club of the Wisconsin Rapids Area Inc

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
11
Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc

We bring people together to build community as an inclusive, independent, community-supported nonprofit organization.

Human Services
12
Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Irwin a and Robert D Goodman Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
14%
6,895/49,255

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 38 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GROUNDWORKS MKE — $33,000 · OtherGROUNDWORKS MKEBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $32,030 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBMAYDM INC — $20,000 · OtherMAYDM INCFOOD FOR THOUGHT INITIATIVE — $20,000 · OtherFOOD FOR THOUGHT INITIATIVEFAIRVIEW SOUTH SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherFAIRVIEW SOUTH SCHOOLURBAN PEAK — $15,000 · OtherURBAN PEAKSP MILWAUKEE PROPCOL LLC — $12,000 · OtherSHINING STARS FOUNDATION — $23,030 · OtherSHINING STARS FOUNDATIONBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $15,000 · OtherBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INCARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC — $15,000 · OtherARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INCRevitalize Milwaukee Inc — $10,000 · Other+7 more — $30,800 · Other+7 moreJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $25,200 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INCIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesIRWIN A AND ROBER…Foster the Village Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesFoster the Villag…VALLEY KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $16,500 · Human ServicesVALLEY KIDS FOUND…CENTRO HISPANO INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO IN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesChildrens Oncology Services Inc — $63,804 · HealthChildrens Onc…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $12,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $5,000 · HealthAUDIO & BRAIL…Food For Thought Denver — $25,000 · EducationFood For Tho…THE LINCOLN ACADEMY INC — $25,000 · EducationTHE LINCOLN …THE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOUN…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $15,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Gir…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $35,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AM…REAP FOOD GROUP INC — $25,500 · Food & NutritionREAP FOOD …OPERATION FRESH START INC — $49,970 · Employment
Other$240,860Human Services$102,700Health$81,304Education$75,000Youth Development$60,750Food & Nutrition$60,500Employment$49,970

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc — $63,804 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOPERATION FRESH START INC — $49,970 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREAP FOOD GROUP INC — $25,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $25,200 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LINCOLN ACADEMY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHINING STARS FOUNDATION — $23,030 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMAYDM INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFoster the Village Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetVALLEY KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $16,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $15,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNAIOP - WISCONSIN CHAPTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILLUMINUS FOUNDATION INC F/K/A MARQUARDT FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Otto Bremer TrustHerbert H Kohl Charit…Alliant Energy Founda…M3 Insurance Foundati…Baird Foundation IncThe Evjue Foundation …United Way of Dane Co…Madison Gas and Elect…Madison Community Fou…Greater Green Bay Com…DAVID G and NANCY B W…
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI30.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · M3 Insurance Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · DAVID G and NANCY B WALSH FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD

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 Eppstein Uhen Tennessen 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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