· Public charity
Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated
It is the mission of hope house to end homelessness & create healthy communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $2,227,127 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,550,973 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,323,846 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC | $154,032 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF WISCONSIN INC | $133,333 |
| HMONG AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION INC | $133,333 |
| SAMAD'S HOUSE CORP | $133,333 |
| SERENITY INNS INC | $133,333 |
| VIVENT HEALTH INC | $122,544 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC | $122,454 |
| CHANGING HANDS MENTORING INC | $122,242 |
| BENEDICT CENTER | $121,286 |
| SAFE AND SOUND INC | $112,712 |
| FATHERS MAKING PROGRESS | $100,000 |
| WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| INPOWER SOLUTIONS LLC | $100,000 |
| MILWAUKEE TURNERS INC | $100,000 |
| UNITING GARDEN HOMES INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $613k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k 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
- MHMental Health America of Wisconsin Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $357k · revenue +58%
- SHSAMADS HOUSE CORP4× · 2022–2025 · $310k · revenue +120%
Health Connections Incorporated2× · 2020–2022 · $253k · revenue +119% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- NCNEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2022 · $180k · revenue +11%
RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -17%- MRMERA RESPONSE TEAMone grant, 2022 · $100k · 100% of their budget
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.
Break down barriers that keep people from living full and meaningful lives. Thr organization does this by building authentic human connections, advocating with the people we support and creating opportunities for holistic and lasting…
The mission of the milwaukee women's center, inc. is to provide innovative, culturally competent holistic care that will empower men, women, and children to live safe, independent, and healthy lives.
We focus on making the maximum positive effort for our community. Our members and volunteers provide the momentum that helps us affect change. Using a range of human, social, cultural, religious and artistic services, these services are…
Breaking Barriers is a local non profit based in Milwaukee serving the population of youth, young adults, and adults who have been systemically and directly impacted by incarceration. We combine community leaders and organizers who want to…
The Mindful Group Inc. is a Milwaukee-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to empowering underserved communities through workforce training, job placement, and holistic support services. Our mission is to provide access to education,…
United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee's mission is to strengthen city neighborhoods by combining and enhancing the assets of our partner agencies to improve the quality of life for urban families.
To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic…
To build healthy communities by empowering individuals and families through innovative substance abuse prevention and intervention resources. this is done by providing effective programs and resources that build communities free from…
Provide an array of quality behavioral healthcare services designed to meet the needs of residents of medina county and surrounding areas.
Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.
Meet the needs of homeless, vulnerable, and struggling youth and families from our community. through providing services, we empower youth, help them resolve their problems, and strengthen families in order to assist in creating safe and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outreach Community Health Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mera Response Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 45 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 COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health America of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMADS HOUSE CORP ↗
- Who funds Health Connections Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE TURNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SERENITY INNS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE SKOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VIVENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSCENTER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA BEHAVIORAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES DRYHOOTCH ↗
- Who funds Hmong American Friendship Association Inc ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERA RESPONSE TEAM ↗
- Who funds UNITING GARDEN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds FATHERS MAKING PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds MACK THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 KIDZ INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN VALUES ↗
- Who funds MARUF INC ↗
- Who funds 5 POINTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Impact100 Greater Milwaukee 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 Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated 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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