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.

Four-Four Foundation Inc

Four-Four Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$267k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$37MArts & Culture$6.1MEnvironment$3.0MHealth$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.5MYouth Development$734kHuman Services$645kFood & Nutrition$169kOther$0

02FY2025 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $162k
$10k–50k40 grants · $741k
$50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$250k+1 grant · $267k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE	$267,000
HIGHLANDS CENTER FOR NATURAL HISTORY	$187,000
AZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$175,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM	$156,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC	$135,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATRE	$85,000
ARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION	$77,000
ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC	$77,000
UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL	$69,000
TALL PINES CONSERVANCY	$62,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE	$58,000
PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER	$50,000
FAMILY HEART CAMP	$36,000
SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE	$35,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND	$33,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$33M · 99 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

99 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$33M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+56%

Still filing today

73%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $19M · revenue +138% · 96% of their budget
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +92%
HC
HIGHLANDS CENTER FOR NATURAL HISTORY
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +49% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

HH
Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +185%
TO
THE ONE BIG CIRCLE
one grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue 0% · 36% of their budget
WBCS INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +117%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Landmark Conservancy Inc

Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment

Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc

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

Environment

Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment

Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment

Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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Gathering Waters Inc

Gathering waters (wisconsin's alliance for land trusts) strengthens land trusts to protect wisconsin's special places and grow healthy, vibrant communities. the stronger the alliance between gathering waters' staff and board members, land…

Environment

Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

—

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc; the most unlike its peers is The One Big Circle. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

84/85

Grantees still filing

65/85

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$36,364,840Arts & Culture$5,587,000Other$3,951,500Environment$2,584,000Health$1,691,000Philanthropy$1,302,000Recreation & Sports$554,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI43.9× affinity21 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 · 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Four-Four Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Four-Four Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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