Wisconsin · 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.
- $295k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Friendship House of Milwaukee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $295k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $276k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $332k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $326k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $328k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $453k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $310k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $230k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc | $890,000 | 8 | 35% |
| Cathedral Center Inc | $455,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Franciscan Peacemakers Inc | $182,500 | 9 | 6% |
| Benedict Center Inc | $141,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Pearls for Teen Girls Inc | $75,800 | 3 | 3% |
| Exploit No More Inc | $74,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Acts Community Development Corporation | $54,000 | 2 | 1% |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City on a Hill Inc | $46,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Friendship House of Milwaukee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
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About Friendship House of Milwaukee
- How much does Friendship House of Milwaukee give?
- Friendship House of Milwaukee reported 5 grants totaling $295,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friendship House of Milwaukee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (50%), Human Services (16%), Crime & Legal (15%).
- Who are Friendship House of Milwaukee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc ($890k), Cathedral Center Inc ($455k), Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc ($225k).
- Does Friendship House of Milwaukee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friendship House of Milwaukee accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friendship House of Milwaukee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Friendship House of Milwaukee based?
- Friendship House of Milwaukee is based in WI.
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