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Ettinger Family Foundation at a glance

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Ettinger Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$212kHuman Services$198kArts & Culture$115kHealth$90kFood & Nutrition$70kEducation$50kReligion$25kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$743k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
HILLEL - UW MILWAUKEE$10,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER$5,000
NORTH SHORE LIBRARY$5,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$5,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER$5,000
CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION$5,000
JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%MAKE A DIFFERENCE WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $10k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $10k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$423k · 13 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

$423k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+41%

Still filing today

62%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +64%
  • PC
    PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +18%
  • SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IM
    Imagine MKEInc
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -28%
  • THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • META HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +76%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
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
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
4
Milwaukee Jewish Day School Inc

Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.

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5
Montessori Institute of Milwaukee Inc

Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods

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6
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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7
Milwaukee Public Museum Endowment Fund

Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.

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8
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

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…

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9
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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10
Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc

The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $80,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $35,000 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $35,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRYMETA HOUSE INC: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10,000 · OtherUWM GOLDA MEIR LIBRARY: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE: $10,000 · OtherTHE SAM AND HELEN STAHL CENTER: $10,000 · OtherHILLEL MILWAUKEE: $10,000 · OtherWUWM MILWAUKEE PUBLIC RADIO: $10,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $32,500 · Other+7 moreMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $226,800 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INCJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY S…SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMIL…MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE JEWIS…+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $52,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE B…Imagine MKEInc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureImagine MKE…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE P…PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthPENFIELD CH…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…THE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Other$262,500Philanthropy$226,800Human Services$107,500Arts & Culture$82,500Health$80,000Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $226,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $52,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetImagine MKEInc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL MILWAUKEE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC MILWAUKEE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Peck Foundation Milwa…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Gardner FoundationAnon Charitable TrustHarri Hoffmann Family…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Baird Foundation IncCroen Foundation Inc
Peck Foundation Milwaukee LtdWI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ettinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ettinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ettinger Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ettinger Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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