· Private foundation
Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $279k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $217k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WISCONSIN | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC (FBBG) | $47,000 |
| GIRLS ROCK CAMP MADISON | $21,500 |
| AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC (ABLE) | $21,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $19,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MITCHELL GALLERY OF FLIGHT | $18,000 |
| HHM - HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE CO MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $17,000 |
| GUARDIAN WHISKERS | $16,000 |
| HEAR WISCONSIN | $14,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $13,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BLACK ARTS MKE INC | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL B'NE JESHURUN | $10,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE SEMINARY A MINISTRY OF THE PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUC | $9,000 |
| DEKOVEN CENTER INC | $9,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 13 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC4× · 2020–2025 · $184k · revenue +28%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2023–2025 · $140k · revenue +22%
HEAR Wisconsin Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Botanical Gardenone grant, 2022 · $52k
- ARAmerican Red Cross SE Wisconsinone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ABAudio Braille Literacy Enhncmntone grant, 2020 · $45k
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.
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…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
Revitalize Milwaukee transforms communities by providing free, critical home repairs and comprehensive services to low-income, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities. Over the last 21 years we have grown to be the largest provider…
Making the arts accessible to all
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 152 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 FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ROCK CAMP MADISON ↗
- Who funds PORTAL INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VISION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Core El Centro Incorporated ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BLACK ARTS MKE INC ↗
- Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus
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 Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr 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.
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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