· Private foundation
James Wheeler Campbell Memorial 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of JAMES WHEELER CAMPBELL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| HISTORIC COLONY HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $2,500 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NEW DAY CLUB | $2,500 |
| NORTH SHORE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FASD COMMUNITIES | $2,500 |
| PEARLS FOR TEEN GIRLS | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WI | $1,000 |
| RIVER HILLS POLICE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| FIRST STAGE | $1,000 |
| URBAN AUTISM SOLUTIONS | $1,000 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +24%
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $38k · revenue +39%
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +53%
Funded once
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +43%
MILWAUKEE TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +81%- RBROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
Milwaukee public library foundation is to provide essential support through private contributions for books, materials, programs, and library facilities to ensure the milwaukee public library's continued standing as a great library…
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 medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Making the arts accessible to all
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…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Healing Hearts Hooves and Paws Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 47 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 HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MCC SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds JULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLONY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN LAKE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FASD Communities ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WEYENBERG PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds Dogs to Dog Tags Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds North Shore Library Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CADDIE & LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF SE WI INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds PUENTES-BRIDGES INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Baird Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Telly Foundation Ltd · Hauske Family Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation 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 James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc 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.
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.