· Private foundation
Generac Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k277 grants · $438k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $378k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC | $50,000 |
| INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC | $25,000 |
| DISCOVERY WORLD LTD | $22,500 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $18,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK | $15,000 |
| TOOLBANK USA INC | $15,000 |
| INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER IN | $15,000 |
| CITY OF WAUKESHA | $12,000 |
| INNOVATORS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Generac Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 69%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
178 repeat relationships: 157 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 110 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; $427k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $180k · revenue +28%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +22%
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING3× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- GBGREEN BAY METRO FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2023 · $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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in 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,…
The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…
How this is measured
284 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 284 of the 434 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN LOGISTICS AID NETWORK ↗
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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 · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Generac Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Generac Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Neighborimpact: 68% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc: 33% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
- Vermont Energy Education Program Inc: 4% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
- Central Oregon Trail Alliance: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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