· Private foundation
Herman W Ladish Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $130,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $125,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $95,000 |
| CREEK VALLEY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ORIOLE LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PEWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $10,000 |
| OZAUKEE CHILD CARE PRESCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $4,500 |
| PEWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| VOLUNTEER SERVICE CLUB OF PEWAUKEE LAKE | $2,000 |
| PABST MANSION | $1,000 |
| ST OLAF LUTHERAN CHURCH | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMarquette University5× · 2021–2025 · $819k · revenue +16%
- RURush University Medical Center5× · 2021–2025 · $735k · revenue +14%
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $665k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- 6L626 LANDMARK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +39%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +0%
- BCBALLET CO-LABORATORYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +69%
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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 Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds ORIOLE LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds 626 LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET CO-LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds PABST MANSION 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herman W Ladish Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herman W Ladish Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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