· Public charity
Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc
To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC | $25,000 |
| JOURNEY HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| SOJOURNER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC | $25,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS SERVICE OF WI INC | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE CHRISTIAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| FONDY FOOD CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $15,000 |
| VIVENT HEALTH INC | $15,000 |
| SAFE & SOUND INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +82%
FONDY FOOD CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +9%
SOJOURNER FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- SDSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +210%
Bridge Builders Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
Kinship Community Food Center engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger, isolation, and poverty. Our innovative programs nourish food security and wellness, foster belonging and community engagement, and empower stability…
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…
United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee's mission is to strengthen city neighborhoods by combining and enhancing the assets of our partner agencies to improve the quality of life for urban families.
The mission of the milwaukee women's center, inc. is to provide innovative, culturally competent holistic care that will empower men, women, and children to live safe, independent, and healthy lives.
-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
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,…
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…
Provide emergency food assistance to needy individuals in Milwaukee.
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…
Building a coalition to create Milwaukee most dynamic neighborhood.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fondy Food Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 32 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 UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bridge Builders Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds REDgen Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hmong American Friendship Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds NourishMKE Inc ↗
- Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
- Who funds Core El Centro Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds VIVENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds BIZSTARTS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN 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 · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · The Ros Foundation · Direct Supply Foundation Inc · The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · Hunger Task Force 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 Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc 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.