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Ffbw Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INIATIVE CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| SECUREFUTURES | $5,000 |
| ROOTED AND RISING | $5,000 |
| ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| OPERATION FINALLY HOME | $5,000 |
| URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC | $2,500 |
| ACTS HOUSING | $2,500 |
| LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC CENTER FOR FINANCIAL STABILITY | $2,500 |
| THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- OFOPERATION FINALLY HOME8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +11%
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +40%
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- LSLUTHERN SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $5k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +37%
- UFUNITED FOR WAUKESHA COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
The mission of west central wisconsin community action agency, inc. is to take action against poverty by developing the social and economic assets of low-income families and their communities and by working to create a more just and…
To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income persons and to stabilize and strengthen communities by improving the local housing stock. the corporation shall administer programs that revitalize…
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.
Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Northwoods 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 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 OPERATION FINALLY HOME ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE ESPERANZA FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds CARING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Housing Action Coalition of Waukesha County Inc ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA FREE CLINIC 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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Abc Foundation Charitable Trust · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · 1895 Bancorp of Wisconsin Community Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude 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 Ffbw Community 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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