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Hh Camp Foundation at a glance

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Hh Camp 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$40kRecreation & Sports$28kHuman Services$15kHealth$14kArts & Culture$11kAnimals$2kCivil Rights$2k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$249k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC$5,560
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$2,000
GATHERING OF SE WISCONSIN$1,500
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC$1,500
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$1,000
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $1k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Hh Camp Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 0%.

Hh Camp Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$102k · 14 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$102k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+12%

Still filing today

86%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • PC
    PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $14k · revenue +62%
  • ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $13k · revenue +129%
  • MY
    MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • FS
    FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +12%
  • ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +6%
  • SM
    ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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 University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
2
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

—
3
Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee Inc

A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future

Education
4
Milwaukee Math and Science Academy Inc

The mission of milwaukee math and science academy, inc. is to create a learning community in which:-teachers, parents and students work together to develop young people who are confident and achieve academic excellence in a powerful…

Education
5
One City Schools Inc

Our mission is to seed a new model of public education that ensures young children are on track to succeed in a college or career preparatory program from birth through high school graduation.

Human Services
6
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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7
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
8
Downtown Montessori Academy Inc

To create a montessori environment where the child's early experiences with learning will help him or her to become a self-confident, competent, cooperative adult.

Education
9
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

—
10
Milwaukee Jewish Day School Inc

Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.

—
11
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
12
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc; the most unlike its peers is College Possible Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 20 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.

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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

CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $27,610 · OtherCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INCMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCPENFIELD MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · OtherPENFIELD MONTESSORI ACADEMY INCFIRST STAGE CHILDREN'S TRUST (FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE INC): $4,000 · OtherFIRST STAGE CHILDREN'S TRUST (FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE IN…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $3,500 · Other+3 moreALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $13,000 · EducationALL-IN MILWAUKEE INCMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $7,025 · EducationMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCO…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $3,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,000 · EducationCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE…ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN INC: $2,000 · EducationROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSI…THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $1,000 · EducationPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $14,000 · HealthPENFIELD CHILD…UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COM…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHO…FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 · Animals
Other$53,110Education$29,025Health$14,000Human Services$10,500Arts & Culture$2,000Animals$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $27,610 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $7,025 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPENFIELD MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Baird Foundation IncThe Burke Foundation …Anon Charitable TrustNorthwestern Mutual L…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Cedar Street Charitab…City Forward Collecti…Arzbaecher Family Fou…
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Burke Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · City Forward Collective Inc · Arzbaecher Family Foundation

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 Hh Camp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hh Camp Foundation. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hh Camp Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hh Camp 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.

    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 20 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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