· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ACTS HOUSING | $8,000 |
| JEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CENTRO DE LA COMMUNIDAD UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $7,500 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - ACE PROGRAM ARTS IN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PART | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY OPEN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
- JOJEFFERSON OPEN SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gene & Ruth Posner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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