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Foster Family Foundation Ima Co Elizabeth
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE REINS | $2,500 |
| FRANCISCAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $2,400 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF | $1,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $500 |
| RIVERSIDE CEMETERY FOUNDATION | $300 |
| SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE | $250 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN | $250 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $225 |
| SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER | $150 |
| CAMP MANITOWISH YMCA | $100 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $100 |
| HOBART AND WILLIAMS SMITH COLLEGE | $100 |
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 (FY19–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 72% 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
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC6× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +6%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC6× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +26%
- RCRIVERSIDE CEMETERY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- LVLIFE VILLAGE INCone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -47%
- KKAMPNone grant, 2019 · $6k
- SCSMITH COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
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 improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Making the arts accessible to all
The organization acquires, holds, administers, and distributes real and personal property for the benefit of the university of wisconsin (uw)-madison.
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…
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,…
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
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 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…
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life Village Inc. 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 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 52 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Camel 24 Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds 4 KIDS 2 KIDS ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds BESTFRIENDS PET ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREEN TREE GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL TROUPE LTD ↗
- Who funds HHT FOUNDATION ↗
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: Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Foster Family Foundation Ima Co Elizabeth 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.
- Hht Foundation — 30% of income from government
- Neighborhood Health Center — 9% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% 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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