· Private foundation
James and Christine Speaker Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC | $40,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | $35,000 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| REFUGEEONE | $20,000 |
| HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC | $15,000 |
| THE GUEST HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES | $10,000 |
| GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
It is the mission of hope house to end homelessness & create healthy communities.
To ensure that men, women, and children in the greater milwaukee area receive the quality health care, behavioral health, housing, and supportive services they need in order to live at the highest possible level of self-sufficiency.
House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.
Family Promise of the Great Rivers is a family homeless shelter offering food, clothing, life skills, and a community of people who care. Beyond our shelter, we also provide eviction prevention, shelter diversion, and long-term case…
Recognizing the worth and dignity of each person, hopes helps people end their homelessness.
Baraboo area homeless shelter works to provide shelter and comprehensive case management services to persons experiencing homelessness in baraboo, wisconsin and the surrounding area.
Provide emergency shelter and support for homeless families
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is German Shepherd Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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.
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 FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC ↗
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: Speaker Family Foundation of 2004 · Amazonsmile 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 James and Christine Speaker 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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