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Henry H Uihlein (Sr) and Marion (Polly) S Uihlein Foundation Inc

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.

$193k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$389kHealth$216kArts & Culture$166kInternational$157kEducation$139kYouth Development$110kHousing & Shelter$47kAnimals$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$23,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC$30,000
SUPPORTERS OF OPERA SINGERS INC$30,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WI INC$23,000
YMCA OF METRO MILWAUKEE$23,000
WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC$23,000
4PAWS$16,000
MSU HILLEMAN SCHOLARS PROGRAM$16,000
CHARLES M BOESEL FOUNDATION - RED ARROW SCHOLARSHIP$16,000
SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC$16,000
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, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $4k → 9%SHARP LITERACY INC: $5k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $6k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $6k → 17%PEACE LEARNING CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $1k → 17%PEACE LEARNING CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $1k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $7k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $7k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $7k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $6k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $5k → 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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 22 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
0

Total granted

$1.5M
$0

Still filing today

68%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +39%
  • WQ
    WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +219%
  • RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +36%

Funded once

    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
    The Madison Waldorf School Ltd

    The madison waldorf school is an independent day school located in madison wisconsin, and a developing member of the association of waldorf schools of north america.

    Education
    2
    Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc

    The Y is the nation's leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities through Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility.

    Human Services
    3
    The Parenting Network Inc

    Since 1977, the parenting network (tpn) has served families throughout the greater milwaukee community with its mission to strengthen families and to prevent child abuse. agency services are provided:"individually: home visiting and case…

    Crime & Legal
    4
    Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc
    —
    5
    Madison Children's Museum Inc

    Madison children's museum connects children with their families, their communities, and the world beyond through discovery learning and creative play. madison children's museum strives to be a welcoming, imaginative, joyful learning…

    Arts & Culture
    6
    Precious Kids Center

    Located in kitale, kenya, the precious kids center ("pkc") serves children with disabilities to provide the support they need to learn, grow, and reach their full potential. each child is cared for according to their individual needs.…

    International
    7
    Start Early

    Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

    —
    8
    Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc

    Advancing comprehensive and transformational support of the early childhood workforce.

    —
    9
    Wisconsin Parkinson Association Inc

    Providing hope, community, support, and resources for people with parkinson's and their loved ones.

    —
    10
    Neighborhood House of Milwaukee Inc

    To inspire discovery in children and families of all backgrounds, so they become lifelong learners and confident leaders among their peers, families, and communities.nh's mission is to inspire discovery in children and families of all…

    Human Services
    11
    Smart Love Parenting Center

    To provide a variety of programs in the chicago area to help children, parents, and adults achieve greater inner well-being, sustain closer relationships, and have more pleasurable family, school, and work lives.

    Human Services
    12
    King Street Center Inc

    King street center empowers youth to explore their talents and find their voice through learning, play, and opportunity.

    Human Services
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Peace Learning Center of Milwaukeeinc. 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

    15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    15/15
    Grantees still filing
    11/15
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    SUPPORTERS OF OPERA SINGERS INC: $196,000 · OtherSUPPORTERS OF OPERA SINGERS INCYMCA OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $140,000 · OtherYMCA OF METRO MILWAUKEECHARLES M BOESEL FOUNDATION - RED ARROW SCHOLARSHIP: $63,000 · OtherCHARLES M BOESEL FOUNDATION - RED ARROW SCHOLA…SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC: $62,000 · OtherSUMMIT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC4PAWS: $48,000 · Other4PAWSMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $47,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONMSU HILLEMAN SCHOLARS PROGRAM: $43,000 · OtherMSU HILLEMAN SCHOLARS PROGRAM+1 more: $4,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $202,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN …WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $132,000 · HealthWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION I…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $127,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF E…+2 more: $14,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $187,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVE…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $47,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC: $10,000 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $9,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesOUR NEXT GENERATION INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · Recreation & Sports
    Other$603,000Health$475,000International$187,000Youth Development$110,000Human Services$80,000Civil Rights$15,000Recreation & Sports$9,000

    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 budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $202,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $187,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $132,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $127,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC: $62,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $47,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOUR NEXT GENERATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

    • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
    • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
    • Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
    • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
    • Who funds SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
    • Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
    • Who funds OUR NEXT GENERATION INC ↗
    • Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
    • Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
    • Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
    • Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
    • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
    • Who funds PEACE LEARNING CENTER OF MILWAUKEEINC ↗

    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.

    Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Henry H Uihlein (Sr) and Marion (Polly) S Uihlein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry H Uihlein (Sr) and Marion (Polly) S Uihlein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
      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.
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      How do I get to Henry H Uihlein (Sr) and Marion (Polly) S Uihlein Foundation Inc?

      Find your warmest path to Henry H Uihlein (Sr) and Marion (Polly) S Uihlein Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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