· Private foundation
Friendship House of Milwaukee
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $125,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN | $50,000 |
| HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC | $30,000 |
| FRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $890k · revenue +246% · 35% of their budget
CATHEDRAL CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $455k · revenue +77%
LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -14%
- ECEVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCYone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +14%
JOURNEY HOUSE INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -11%
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.
House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…
Hope gospel mission exists to offer christ-centered, life changing help to the homeless and needy in western wisconsin.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Provide emergency food assistance to needy individuals in Milwaukee.
Life house works to reconnect homeless and street youth to their dreams with a vision that no youth will be left homeless, alone, uncared for, or fending for themselves on the streets. our comprehensive service model aims to engage and…
Recognizing the worth and dignity of each person, hopes helps people end their homelessness.
To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic…
Meet the needs of homeless, vulnerable, and struggling youth and families from our community. through providing services, we empower youth, help them resolve their problems, and strengthen families in order to assist in creating safe and…
Provide resources and services to empower homeless families and individuals of washington county wisconsin.
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Northwoods 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 50 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds Exploit No More Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OPEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS-A HOME FOR MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTLAND AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND GIRLS FUND OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds KINDERHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS INITIATIVE FOR LEADERS ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY CARING INC ↗
- Who funds STREET ANGELS 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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Ros Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community 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 Friendship House of Milwaukee 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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