· Private foundation
James and Karen Hyde Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WI | $5,000 |
| WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| OLD WORLD WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC5× · 2017–2021 · $78k · revenue +60%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +34%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- NHNASHOTAH HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PMPABST MANSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +96%
- MCMEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN GRADUAone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
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.
Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
WMNC will continue constructing the new Milwaukee Public Museum facility to completion and will then continue as the owner and operator of the new museum.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
To cultivate civil discourse, increase understanding, and create common ground by connecting wisconsin people and ideas.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
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…
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OLD WORLD WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds PABST MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James and Karen Hyde Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Karen Hyde Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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