· Private foundation
Herbert H & Fern Elliott Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of HERBERT H & FERN ELLIOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SHUL | $31,800 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $17,140 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,400 |
| TEMPLE JEREMIAH | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $2,500 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $1,800 |
| FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE | $1,500 |
| UPAF | $1,500 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $1,500 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| OVATION JEWISH HOME | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| IC CATHOLIC PREP | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +346%
GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC6× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +28%- WSWASHINGTON STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- YIYOUNG ISRAEL OF TOCO HILLSone grant, 2019 · $8k
JEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +25%- MCMITZVAH CORPSone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
To lead the fight to cure and treat als through global, cutting-edge research, and to empower people living with als in wisconsin, and their families, to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Shirts Across America. 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 37 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 58 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
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 THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TOMORROWS HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
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: Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Pelz Family Foundation Inc · Howard Frankenthal Family Foundation Ltd · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County 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 Herbert H & Fern Elliott Family Foundation 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.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Herbert H & Fern Elliott Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Herbert H & Fern Elliott Family Foundation 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.