· Private foundation
Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | $25,000 |
| HEAR WISCONSIN | $25,000 |
| ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| META HOUSE | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE DOME | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| KINSHIP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOERNER BOTANICAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| MEQUON NATURE PRESERVE | $5,000 |
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, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC6× · 2018–2025 · $77k · revenue +246%
HEAR Wisconsin Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +28%- MDMILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC4× · 2018–2025 · $62k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- ERENDANGERED RESOURCES FUNDone grant, 2020 · $15k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +1%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
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…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
Schlitz audubon nature center conserves our land's diverse habitats on lake michigan and provides meaningful experiences and environmental education for all.
Our mission is to protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the river corridors and to advocate for sound land use in the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic River Watersheds.
Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship
The milwaukee public museum inspires curiosity, excites minds and increases desire to preserve and protect our world's natural and cultural diversity through exhibitions, educational programs, collections and research.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
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 humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 30 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEARING ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHOREWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Frank and Lucille Puncer Foundation Ltd · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · William Stark Jones Foundation Katherine W Lambert Co-Trustee · The Ros Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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