Wisconsin · 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.
- $387k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 50 | $377k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $358k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $363k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $398k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $396k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $396k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $392k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $401k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp Literacy Inc | $260,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation Inc | $182,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $163,000 | 8 | 0% |
| College Possible Inc | $135,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Operation Dream Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Tools for Peace | $96,000 | 8 | 20% |
| Milwaukee Bar Association Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 6% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation | $57,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc | $54,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 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: 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
How this is measured
About Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc
- How much does Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc give?
- Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc reported 51 grants totaling $387,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Arts & Culture (17%), Crime & Legal (16%).
- Who are Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Sharp Literacy Inc ($260k), Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation Inc ($183k), Hunger Task Force Inc ($163k).
- Does Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc 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 Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc based?
- Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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