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Frieda and William Hunt Memorial Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$466k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$403kAnimals$171kEducation$135kHousing & Shelter$100kHealth$64kHuman Services$63kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kEmployment$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 33 grants below total $367,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $466,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$9,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Milwaukee Repertory Theatre$65,000
Milwaukee Habitat For Humanity$37,500
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra$30,000
Florentine Opera Company$25,000
Ducks Unlimited$25,000
Coast Guard Foundation, Inc.$12,000
Marquette University$10,000
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design$10,000
Concordia University$10,000
Milwaukee Art Museum$10,000
Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation$10,000
Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching$10,000
United Performing Arts Fund$10,000
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Foundation, Inc.$10,000
UWM Foundation, Inc.$10,000
02Your 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$904k · 29 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
18

Total granted

$904k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+80%

Still filing today

62%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $142k · revenue +52%
  • FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $108k · revenue +38%
  • MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • MJ
    Milwaukee Jobs Work, Milwaukee Community Business Colaborative Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • US
    University School Milwaukee
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • JOURNEY HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -75%

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

03Your 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.

1
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
6
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

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.

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7
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…

Arts & Culture
8
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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9
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
10
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
11
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc

Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
12
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Pay It Forward. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Construc…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Hospital SystemsEarly Childhood Care CentersLocal History MuseumsCollege Foundation SupportFood Pantries and AssistanceCommunity Theater CompaniesEducation Equity InitiativesChildhood Cancer SupportYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Advocacy and …Addiction & Mental Health T…Charter and Independent Sch…United Way AffiliatesVeteran Support ServicesClassical Music Orchestras
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr19%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr16%36%35–55yr19%49%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,487

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.

03the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Zoological Society of Milwaukee — $100,000 · OtherZoological Society of MilwaukeeDucks Unlimited — $55,000 · OtherDucks UnlimitedMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $36,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING — $30,000 · OtherGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHINGMilwaukee Jobs Work, Milwaukee Community Business Colaborative Inc — $30,000 · OtherMilwaukee Jobs Work, Milwaukee Community Business Colab…MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC — $25,000 · OtherUniversity School Milwaukee — $25,000 · OtherPrevent Blindness Wisconsin — $23,500 · OtherYMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Camp Manito-Wish — $22,680 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $20,000 · OtherJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $20,000 · Other+20 more — $158,750 · Other+20 moreMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $142,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INCFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $107,500 · Arts & CultureFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INCMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INCUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC+5 more — $16,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationMarquette University — $10,000 · EducationMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $5,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $5,000 · EducationNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $5,000 · EducationCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION PAY IT FORWARD — $5,000 · Public BenefitREEL RECOVERY INC — $15,000 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 · HealthFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$545,930Arts & Culture$326,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Education$70,000Public Benefit$37,000Health$30,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $142,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $107,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin — $23,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREEL RECOVERY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI — $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMarquette University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST POND FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetOUR NEXT GENERATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVILLA TERRACE MUSEUM AND GARDENS LTD — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOPERATION PAY IT FORWARD — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSERENITY INNS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OPEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Baird Foundation IncRalph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Anon Charitable TrustBert L and Patricia S…Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Gardner FoundationCharles D Ortgiesen F…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI50.5× affinity23 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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Charles D Ortgiesen 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Frieda and William Hunt Memorial Trust?

Find your warmest path to Frieda and William Hunt Memorial Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $425k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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