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Fellowship Open Inc

The fellowship open's principal mission is to support organizations that make a meaningful and demonstrable difference in the lives of the milwaukee-area low income youth.

$315k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$311k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
  • $250k+1 grant · $311k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALIVE MKE$310,567
Old Mt Zion New Jerusalem Church$26,000
Moncrieff Game Changer$20,000
Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation Incorperated$13,750
Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy$12,500
MArquette University$8,070
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Moncrieff Game Changer: $20k → 17%Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation Incorperated: $14k → 17%Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy: $13k → 17%ALIVE MKE: $311k → 17%Old Mt Zion New Jerusalem Church: $26k → 17%MArquette University: $8k → 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 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 Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

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2
The Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc

The mission of the milwaukee academy of science, an exemplary leader in innovative science education that maximizes the potential of each young mind, is to graduate urban students prepared to compete successfully in science at the…

Education
3
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
4
Medical Society of Milwaukee Foundation Inc
Health
5
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
6
Milwaukee Public Schools Admin and Supervisors Council Inc

Milwaukee public school administrators and supervisors council inc. was formed in 1971 to serve as the exclusive bargaining agent for its membership, via collection of dues as the primary source of revenue.

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7
Milwaukee Math and Science Academy Inc

The mission of milwaukee math and science academy, inc. is to create a learning community in which:-teachers, parents and students work together to develop young people who are confident and achieve academic excellence in a powerful…

Education
8
Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee Inc

A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future

Education
9
Milwaukee Urban League

To help minorities and others become self-reliant so they can improve the quality of their lives.

Human Services
10
Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee school of engineering (msoe) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level in the disciplines of engineering business, mathematics, and nursing. (see schedule o)…

Education
11
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

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12
All-in Milwaukee Inc

All-in milwaukee is a college completion program that provides financial aid, advising, program and career support to high potential, limited-income, diverse milwaukee students to complete college, build meaningful careers and transform…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Arts Mke Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

9 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALIVE MKE: $310,567 · OtherALIVE MKECHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INC: $26,000 · OtherCHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INCDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $12,500 · EducationMarquette University: $8,070 · EducationMONCRIEF GAME CHANGER INC MONCRIEF LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $13,750 · Philanthropy
Other$336,567Education$20,570Youth Development$20,000Philanthropy$13,750

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 budgetMONCRIEF GAME CHANGER INC MONCRIEF LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $13,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMarquette University: $8,070 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Ralph Evinrude Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Fellowship Open Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fellowship Open Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to Fellowship Open Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Fellowship Open Inc 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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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