· Private foundation
Ettinger Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION | $20,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HILLEL - UW MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| L'CHAIM CHAVUROT CLUB NORTH SHORE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| THE SAM AND HELEN STAHL CENTER | $5,000 |
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, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +64%- PCPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +18%
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC4× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +32%
Funded once
THE UWM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +5%- IMImagine MKEIncone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -28%
- WMWUWM MILWAUKEE PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2017 · $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.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.
Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods
Making the arts accessible to all
Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.
The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 31 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 MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Imagine MKEInc ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION 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: Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Gardner Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Croen 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 Ettinger 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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