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Fitzsimonds Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k19 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $1,000,000 |
| LIFESTRIDERS | $50,000 |
| DOUGLAS COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| VISION FORWARD | $50,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $45,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $45,000 |
| KAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $35,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| DRAKE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| KANDU INDUSTRIES | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $20,000 |
| HELP AND HOPE CENTER | $20,000 |
| CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER | $20,000 |
| SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC5× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +7%- LILIFESTRIDERS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +115%
- KAKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- BCBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $50k
THE UWM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +0%- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
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.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
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…
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 provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Evanston School Children's Clothing Assn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 55 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 PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESTRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KANDU INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLE ROCK COMMUNITY INTER CHURCH TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Windhover Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Emil Ewald Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI
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 Fitzsimonds Charitable Trust 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
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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