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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$4.3MCommunity Improvement$2.5MPhilanthropy$2.5MEducation$1.4MYouth Development$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$986kHealth$914kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $459k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Hoffman Homes Inc: $10k → 17%Independence First Inc: $5k → 14%1 SOLDIER 1 DOG 1 TEAM: $5k → 6%Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center: $10k → 17%Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center: $5k → 14%Jewish Community Centre Of York Pennsylvania: $5k → 9%Cradles to Crayons Chicago: $5k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $5k → 14%YMCA Of Metropolitan Chicago: $5k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $5k → 14%YMCA Of Metropolitan Chicago: $5k → 14%New Hope Ministries Inc: $7k → 9%New Hope Ministries Inc: $5k → 9%SHARP Literacy Inc: $15k → 17%Make A Difference Wisconsin Inc: $12k → 17%SHARP Literacy Inc: $10k → 17%SHARP Literacy Inc: $10k → 17%YMCA of York & York County: $8k → 9%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee Inc: $5k → 17%Neighborhood House of Milwaukee Inc: $5k → 17%St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care Inc: $5k → 17%Hospice & Community Care: $10k → 9%Hospice & Community Care: $5k → 9%Milwaukee Community Business Collaborative Inc: $30k → 17%YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee: $51k → 17%SecureFutures: $12k → 17%Make A Difference Wisconsin Inc: $10k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $15k → 17%American National Red Cross: $30k → 17%American National Red Cross: $20k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $15k → 17%American National Red Cross: $15k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $10k → 17%Journey House: $10k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $10k → 17%United Community Center: $10k → 17%Journey House: $10k → 17%Milwaukee Urban League: $48k → 17%Milwaukee Urban League: $30k → 17%Milwaukee Urban League: $25k → 17%Milwaukee Urban League: $25k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $20k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $20k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $15k → 17%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $15k → 17%YWCA Southeast Wisconsin: $10k → 17%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $10k → 17%Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 177 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

177
222

Total granted

$16M
$992k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+31%

Still filing today

72%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +70%
  • NW
    NEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +351% · 39% of their budget
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIN COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue -36%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue -9%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -3%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
4
Employ Milwaukee Inc

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,…

Employment
5
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Goodwill Industries of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

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,…

Human Services
9
Point Park University

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…

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10
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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11
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
12
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

285 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. 285 of the 436 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
276/285
Grantees still filing
202/285
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $4,049,645 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCChildren's Wisconsin Foundation: $487,819 · Other+125 more: $5,205,359 · Other+125 moreNEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC: $2,081,100 · Community ImprovementNEAR WEST SIDE …MILWAUKEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementMILWAUKEE DEVEL…+5 more: $171,000 · Community Improvement+5 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $1,591,727 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $100,000 · PhilanthropyASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyBrewers Community Foundation Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $72,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $94,475 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIZSTARTS MILWAUKEE INC: $37,500 · Youth Development+5 more: $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $258,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $110,000 · Arts & CultureBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $98,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $71,000 · Arts & CultureGPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD: $42,500 · Arts & CultureFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $95,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $133,250 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $65,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc: $50,600 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesJOBSWORK MKE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Human Services+12 more: $136,973 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $512,181 · HealthBROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $41,500 · HealthSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $30,000 · Health+6 more: $68,144 · Health
Other$9,742,823Community Improvement$2,452,100Philanthropy$2,108,702Youth Development$1,068,500Arts & Culture$805,000Human Services$659,823Health$651,825

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $4,049,645 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetNEAR WEST SIDE PARTNERS INC: $2,081,100 over 8y, 39% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $1,591,727 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $512,181 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $313,227 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $258,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $237,600 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCenter for Veterans Issues Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $174,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $170,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $133,250 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $129,588 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCRISTO REY JESUIT CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC: $118,640 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $110,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $98,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $91,885 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE: $90,725 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $75,825 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SOUTH COLLIN COUNTY: $75,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBrewers Community Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLISTEN FIRST PROJECT INC: $75,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP: $72,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $71,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $67,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIN COUNTY: $55,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $45,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD: $42,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $41,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLABOR COMMUNITY AT WORK INC: $40,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Waukesha County Commu…Anon Charitable TrustGardner FoundationMilwaukee Jewish Fede…Youth Foundation Inc
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI104.7× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 436 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
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