· Private foundation
Frank and Lucille Puncer Foundation Ltd
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of FRANK AND LUCILLE PUNCER FOUNDATION LTD’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $395k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEAR WISCONSIN | $60,000 |
| KINSHIP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $50,000 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $50,000 |
| CAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $35,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER MILWAUKEE | $35,000 |
| META HOUSE | $30,000 |
| THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITIES | $30,000 |
| VISION FORWARD ASSOC | $25,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MKE | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MKE | $25,000 |
| OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| ST BAKHITA CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE | $20,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | $20,000 |
| MILW YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| WIS ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOC | $20,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
HEAR Wisconsin Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +20%
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +32%- WCWomens Care Center of Milwaukee Corp6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- JFJAFINA FUND FOR VICTIMS OF TERRORone grant, 2023 · $30k
- MAMILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCEINCEone grant, 2021 · $30k
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -95%
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.
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
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.
The Hope Center seeks out and teams with volunteers from congregations of many faiths.The Center is committed to serving people in need in Waukesha County, Wisconsin through financial assistance, food, child care, clothing and…
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…
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
Making the arts accessible to all
ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Ecology Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Bakhita Catholic Worker Inc. 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 37 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Care Center of Milwaukee Corp ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TBEY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Nehemiah Project Inc ↗
- Who funds St Bakhita Catholic Worker Inc ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS AT LARGE 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 · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Dorothy Inbusch 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 organization Frank and Lucille Puncer Foundation Ltd 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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