· Private foundation
Graef Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UWM FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY INC | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE | $3,000 |
| ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INC WISCONSIN SECTION | $1,500 |
| STEM FORWARD INC | $1,500 |
| KIDS BUILDING WISCONSIN | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $12k) 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.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +29%
- MUMarquette University6× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +46%
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- AMACE Mentor Program of Greater Milwaukeeone grant, 2022 · $2k
- MSMSOE-American Society of Civil Engineersone grant, 2017 · $2k
- AWASCE WI SECTION SE BRANCH YMGone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…
Promote the practice of civil engineering.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
The umcoe foundation provides gap-filling resources to help mizzou's college of engineering continue its quest for excellence in meeting current and future challenges during a period when state budgets have been drastically restricted for…
The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.
The mission of women in technology is to attract, grow, and retain women of all ages in technology-related careers. wit collaborates with professionals, companies, and communities to help women in technology of all ages and stages - from…
To provide engineering scholarships and support mathematics education.
To provide a solid base of educational and research programs that will allow deserving students the chance to pursue their dreams of a career in construction.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To further the study of pulp and paper science and engineering at uwsp by providing financial assistance to students, and opportunity for alumni and leaders to strengthen the pulp and paper science program, encouraging students to enroll…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds STEM FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Wisconsin Section ↗
- Who funds KIDS BUILDING WISCONSIN 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Graef Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graef Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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