How much did FRANCIE LUKE SILVERMAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of FRANCIE LUKE SILVERMAN FOUNDATION’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

disabledchildren'scounselingresidentialgroupscholarshipsstem

2021

children's sciencescience educationhousingsainttherapydisabledcounseling

2022

added endowmentmaintainscholarshipsartyouthchildrenshealth

2023

arts educationmkehealth wellnessthrive steamsteam forwardfuturechildrens

2024

childrencomprehensivewomen'sempowermentfreekitchenendowed scholarship

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

03FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k61 grants · $317k
$10k–50k9 grants · $170k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WISCONSIN$50,000
FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC (FBBG)$25,000
FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC (FBBG)$22,000
AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC (ABLE)$20,000
GIRLS ROCK CAMP MADISON$19,000
ST LAWRENCE SEMINARY A MINISTRY OF THE PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUCH$19,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$18,000
HHM - HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE CO MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$16,000
FRIENDS OF THE MITCHELL GALLERY OF FLIGHT$16,000
GUARDIAN WHISKERS$15,000
CORE EL CENTRO$9,000
BLACK ARTS MKE INC$8,000
HEAR WISCONSIN$8,000
VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC$8,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$8,000

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, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 8%. 85% 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 56 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

56 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$917k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+41%

Still filing today

71%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

Hear Wisconsin
5× · 2020–2024 · $77k · revenue +57%
Meta House
5× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +128%
Wisconsin Humane Society
5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +30%

Funded once

FO
Friends of Botanical Garden
one grant, 2022 · $52k
FO
Friends of Boerner Botanical Garden
one grant, 2020 · $50k
AR
American Red Cross SE Wisconsin
one grant, 2020 · $50k

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.

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Radio Milwaukee Inc

Through music and stories created for a culturally open- minded community, radio milwaukee, inc. is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive, and engaged milwaukee.

Arts & Culture

Employ Milwaukee Inc

Build a strong workforce development system to ensure a skilled and productive workforce.

Employment

Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment

Cathedral Center Inc

Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…

Religion

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc. is dedicated to promoting and providing research and education concerning the value of diversity in corporate governance and management and eliminating barriers to full inclusion of women in leadership positions.

Education

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee

United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee's mission is to strengthen city neighborhoods by combining and enhancing the assets of our partner agencies to improve the quality of life for urban families.

Human Services

Milwaukee Careers Cooperative

Milwaukee careers cooperative is a non profit employment agency that provides unique employment services, such as education, placement & transportation to assist individuals to obtain and maintain employment. milwaukee careers cooperative…

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Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

Advance the interests of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired.

Health

Milwaukee Lgbt Community Center Inc

The mission of the milwaukee lgbt community center is to further develop our vibrant lgbt community in the greater milwaukee area, thus improving the quality of life for all of us.

Human Services

Milwaukee Christian Center Inc

The milwaukee christian center (mcc) builds strong neighborhoods full of opportunity throughout the city of milwaukee in four core areas: youth development, housing, older adults, and food security.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/72

the rest of the field

935/10,361

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

69 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)

65/69

Grantees still filing

51/69

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,880,750Human Services$255,000Arts & Culture$116,500Education$95,000Health$80,500Animals$74,000Employment$60,500

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 IncWI92.5× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · The Ros Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc

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 FRANCIE LUKE SILVERMAN FOUNDATION 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely 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: Girls Rock Camp Madison.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 271541982 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 Girls Rock Camp Madison, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% of their budget — diversified.
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 Francie Luke Silverman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Francie Luke Silverman Foundation 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.

FRANCIE LUKE SILVERMAN FOUNDATION

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

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Francie Luke Silverman Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FRANCIE LUKE SILVERMAN FOUNDATION

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

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Francie Luke Silverman Foundation?

More from the funding graph