How much did FOUR-FOUR FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of FOUR-FOUR FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

—

2021

—

2022

exempt

2023

exempt

2024

exempt

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k39 grants · $171k
$10k–50k39 grants · $774k
$50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$250k+3 grants · $32M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL$15,891,170
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$15,834,170
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATRE$275,000
HIGHLANDS CENTER FOR NATURAL HISTORY$191,000
IMPACTASSETS$175,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC$133,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$100,000
VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE$95,000
ARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION$77,000
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC$77,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$71,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$64,000
TALL PINES CONSERVANCY$64,000
PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER$52,000
CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE$40,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$49M · 101 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -27% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

Total granted

$49M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

-27%

Still filing today

54%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL
5× · 2020–2024 · $19M · revenue +168% · 96% of their budget
HC
HIGHLANDS CENTER FOR NATURAL HISTORY
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +5% · 39% of their budget
PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $714k · revenue +19%

Funded once

HH
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAULKEE
one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
WBCS INC
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -28%
AA
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -27%

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

04Your field

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.

Landmark Conservancy Inc

To preserve, protect & enhance the natural & scenic land & water resources of wisconsin & adjacent areas for conservation, recreational & cultural purposes.

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Door County Land Trust Inc

Protecting door county's exceptional lands and waters forever

Environment

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

City Wildlife Inc

Protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat.

Education

Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Gathering Waters Inc

To help land trusts, landowners, and communities protect the places that make wisconsin special.

Environment

The River Alliance of Wisconsin Inc

To empower people to protect and restore water.

Environment

Mississippi Valley Conservancy Inc

Mississippi valley conservancy is dedicated to conserving native and working landscapes that enrich our communities, through private, voluntary action, for the health and well-being of current and future generations in southwestern…

Environment

Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

See schedule o for statement. a vital cultural center, educational institution, an expanding network of ideas, the museum of wisconsin art collects and interprets american art through the lens of a single state.

Arts & Culture

Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

Working to further restoration and conservation of wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Ecology Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Versiti Blood Research Institute. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/60

the rest of the field

2,639/36,466

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.

05the grantee network

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/60

Grantees still filing

44/60

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$23,556,170Education$19,176,170Environment$2,061,000Arts & Culture$2,012,000Health$1,700,000Philanthropy$770,000Recreation & Sports$459,000

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI50.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Ge Foundation · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Nicholas Family Foundation Trust

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 organisation FOUR-FOUR FOUNDATION INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 390942763 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Four-Four Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Four-Four Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FOUR-FOUR FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Four-Four Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

FOUR-FOUR FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

60 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Four-Four Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph