· Private foundation
Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY LAW | $75,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN EYE INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $30,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY INC | $25,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $23,000 |
| CLEAR CREEK RADIO INC | $20,000 |
| TOOLS FOR PEACE | $20,000 |
| DISCOVERY WORLD AT PIER WISCONSIN | $15,000 |
| CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ACTS HOUSING | $8,000 |
| CENTRO DE LA COMMUNIDAD UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $7,500 |
| JEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| UWM FOUNDATION INC UWM MKE SCHOLARS SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $6,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $506k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
80 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 34 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
SHARP LITERACY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $260k · revenue +8%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $163k · revenue +77%- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- MJMILWAUKEE JEWISH HOMEone grant, 2018 · $40k
- MEMOUNT EVANS HOME CARE & HOSPICEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- JOJEFFERSON OPEN SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
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…
Making the arts accessible to all
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
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…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Pennies for Hunger. 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 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 15% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 106 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 SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds TOOLS FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR CREEK RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT EVANS HOSPICE INC DBA MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOS ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Playwrights Theater ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Gardner Foundation
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 Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.