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Honkamp Family Foundation
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $200,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING | $125,000 |
| ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +108% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- CFCENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC4× · 2020–2024 · $425k · revenue +108%
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC3× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +342%
CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC2× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +61%
Funded once
THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +41%
ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +8%- SMST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future
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.
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.
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…
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.
We invest in urban communities by expanding access to academic, personal and professional growth opportunities.
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…
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Creative City Public Charter School's teachers, students and parents share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, building on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated…
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.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Woodlands school, inc. is a public charter non-profit school authorized through the univerity of wisconsin-milwaukee using a character-based education approach to prepare children for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · City Forward Collective Inc · Arzbaecher Family Foundation
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 Honkamp 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.
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