· Private foundation
Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL B'NE JESHURUN | $10,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BLACK ARTS MKE INC | $10,000 |
| DEKOVEN CENTER INC | $9,000 |
| META HOUSE | $9,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +30%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Botanical Gardenone grant, 2022 · $52k
- ARAmerican Red Cross SE Wisconsinone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ABAudio Braille Literacy Enhncmntone grant, 2020 · $45k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
81 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. 81 of the 152 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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