New York · Private foundation
Four-Four Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 89
- Grants FY2025
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $267,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 89 to 93
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Four-Four Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 86 | $2.1M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 89 | $18M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 89 | $4.5M | 2% |
| FY2022 | 92 | $2.8M | 3% |
| FY2021 | 93 | $2.8M | 2% |
| FY2020 | 93 | $3.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Lake School Inc | $18,831,170 | 6 | 96% |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $2,035,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Highlands Center for Natural History | $1,465,000 | 6 | 39% |
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $849,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Artists Working in Education Inc | $489,000 | 6 | 17% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $481,000 | 6 | 0% |
| All Hands Boatworks Inc | $464,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Penfield Children's Center Inc | $449,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $438,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Four-Four Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Waukesha County Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Four-Four Foundation Inc
- How much does Four-Four Foundation Inc give?
- Four-Four Foundation Inc reported 89 grants totaling $2,300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 93 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Four-Four Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Arts & Culture (12%), Environment (6%).
- Who are Four-Four Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University Lake School Inc ($19M), Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc ($2.0M), Highlands Center for Natural History ($1.5M).
- Does Four-Four Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Four-Four Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Four-Four Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation.
- Where is Four-Four Foundation Inc based?
- Four-Four Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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