· Private foundation
Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $459k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNGER TASK FORCE OF MILWAUKEE | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN | $250,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PARK FOUNDATION INC | $118,800 |
| NEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS | $110,000 |
| CLEVER SAUCE CREATIVE LLC | $104,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY | $76,252 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $17,100 |
| BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WI | $12,500 |
| LABOR COMMUNITY AT WORK | $10,000 |
| ART INTERSECTION MKE | $10,000 |
| THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION | $6,300 |
| MIAD | $6,000 |
| 1 SOLDIER 1 DOG 1 TEAM | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $689k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
177 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 163 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +70%- NWNEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +351% · 39% of their budget
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC4× · 2018–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIN COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue -36%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Incone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue -9%
- UWUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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.
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,…
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.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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,…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
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…
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Three Rivers United Temporary Housing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
285 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 285 of the 436 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Veterans Issues Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY JESUIT CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Brewers Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds LISTEN FIRST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH COLLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Gardner Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.