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Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated

It is the mission of hope house to end homelessness & create healthy communities.

$4.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$154k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$2.2MHealth$1.9MCrime & Legal$542kHuman Services$280kYouth Development$274kArts & Culture$248k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $2,227,127, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,550,973 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,323,846 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$112,712
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $180k → 17%FATHERS MAKING PROGRESS: $100k → 17%HMONG AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $133k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $133k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $67k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 19 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
21

Total granted

$4.0M
$868k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
0%

Still filing today

79%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • MH
    Mental Health America of Wisconsin Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $357k · revenue +58%
  • SH
    SAMADS HOUSE CORP
    4× · 2022–2025 · $310k · revenue +120%
  • Health Connections Incorporated
    2× · 2020–2022 · $253k · revenue +119% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $180k · revenue +11%
  • RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -17%
  • MR
    MERA RESPONSE TEAM
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · 100% of their budget
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
Wisconsin Meaningful Alternatives Inc

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…

Health
2
Mha Speakout Speakup

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…

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3
Breaking Barriers Mentoring-Wisconsin-Inc

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…

Human Services
4
The Milwaukee Women's Center Inc

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.

Human Services
5
United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee

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.

Human Services
6
The Mindful Group Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
7
Alternative Paths Inc

Provide an array of quality behavioral healthcare services designed to meet the needs of residents of medina county and surrounding areas.

Health
8
Detroit Recovery Project Inc

To support recovery which strengthens, rebuilds, and empowers individuals, families, and communities who are experiencing co-occuring mental illness, and substance use disorders. DRP achieves this by ensuring access to integrated networks…

Human Services
9
Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Friendship House of Milwaukee
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11
Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc

Pathfinders brings safety, hope and healing to youth in crisis through innovative and transformational services. our vision is to provide a more meaningful voice for youth in crisis and ensure that all youth are safe, healthy, independent,…

Human Services
12
Ch Mason Clinic Inc

The organization mission is to provide medical treatment, consultation, education, and access to quality healthcare services for Milwaukees northside community.Services includes Primary care, dental services, preventive care, chronic…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outreach Community Health Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 45 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $380,699 · OtherCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES INCCHANGING HANDS MENTORING INC: $258,909 · OtherCHANGING HANDS MENTORING INCMILWAUKEE TURNERS INC: $236,500 · OtherMILWAUKEE TURNERS INCBENEDICT CENTER INC: $187,953 · OtherBENEDICT CENTER INCTRANSCENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $174,070 · OtherTRANSCENTER FOR YOUTH INCCITY OF CUDAHY: $165,480 · OtherCITY OF CUDAHYINPOWER SOLUTIONS LLC: $150,000 · OtherINPOWER SOLUTIONS LLCCITY OF LIGHT CHURCH INC: $107,100 · OtherMETA HOUSE INC: $100,000 · OtherBLACK SPACE: $90,000 · Other+16 more: $353,636 · Other+16 moreMental Health America of Wisconsin Inc: $357,467 · HealthMental Health America of Wisconsin …SAMADS HOUSE CORP: $310,000 · HealthSAMADS HOUSE CORPHealth Connections Incorporated: $253,000 · HealthHealth Connections IncorporatedOUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $197,120 · HealthOUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS I…VIVENT HEALTH INC: $189,210 · HealthVIVENT HEALTH INCMANNA BEHAVIORAL SERVICES: $148,821 · HealthMANNA BEHAVIORAL SERVICESGREAT LAKES DRYHOOTCH: $136,732 · HealthGREAT LAKES DRYHOOTCHMERA RESPONSE TEAM: $100,000 · HealthMERA RESPONSE TEAMSERENITY INNS INC: $199,999 · Human ServicesSERENITY INN…NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesNEU-LIFE COM…Hmong American Friendship Association Inc: $133,333 · Human ServicesHmong Americ…FATHERS MAKING PROGRESS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS MAKI…Safe & Sound Inc: $184,378 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $170,000 · Crime & LegalTRUE SKOOL INC: $198,000 · Arts & CultureMACK THEATRE GROUP INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentALL 4 KIDZ INC: $48,053 · Youth DevelopmentUNITING GARDEN HOMES INC: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,204,347Health$1,692,350Human Services$613,332Crime & Legal$354,378Arts & Culture$248,000Youth Development$148,053Recreation & Sports$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $380,699 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMental Health America of Wisconsin Inc: $357,467 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSAMADS HOUSE CORP: $310,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetHealth Connections Incorporated: $253,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetMILWAUKEE TURNERS INC: $236,500 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetSERENITY INNS INC: $199,999 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTRUE SKOOL INC: $198,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $197,120 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC: $189,210 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICT CENTER INC: $187,953 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $184,378 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $180,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTRANSCENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $174,070 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA BEHAVIORAL SERVICES: $148,821 over 2y, 94% of budgetGREAT LAKES DRYHOOTCH: $136,732 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMERA RESPONSE TEAM: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetMACK THEATRE GROUP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetALL 4 KIDZ INC: $48,053 over 1y, 81% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN VALUES: $46,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMARUF INC: $23,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC: $8,430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIM COMMUNITY AND HEALTH: $6,150 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…The Medical College o…Brewers Community Fou…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Otto Bremer TrustRite-Hite Foundation …Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Impact100 Greater Mil…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI52.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

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    Find your warmest path to Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated 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 45 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 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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