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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.

$85k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$85k20%
FY202420$64k15%
FY202315$88k0%
FY202226$82k15%
FY202123$72k39%
FY202021$62k33%
FY201917$58k24%
FY201810$23k30%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$165kArts & Culture$146kHealth$140kHuman Services$45kPhilanthropy$24kAnimals$20kRecreation & Sports$13kYouth Development$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
CT
VA
KS
DC
HI
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation$55,00080%
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation$38,00050%
McC Scholars Foundation Inc$37,50064%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin Inc$18,50060%
Trustees of Boston College$17,00030%
Wisconsin Humane Society$14,85080%
Childrens Oncology Services Inc$11,00050%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$10,10080%
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc$10,00050%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$10,00010%
First Stage Milwaukee$8,75090%
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$8,55090%
Julie and Michael Tracy Family Foundation$8,50080%
Historic Colony House Inc$7,50021%
Mountain Lake Community Service Inc$7,50031%
Milwaukee Tennis and Education Foundation$7,50013%
McPreparatory School of Wisconsin Inc$6,00030%
FASD Communities$6,00040%
Weyenberg Public Library Foundation Inc$5,85081%
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$5,50040%
Pearls for Teen Girls Inc$5,50050%
Dogs to Dog Tags Inc$5,00011%
River Hills Police Association$3,5002n/a
The New Day Club Inc$2,5001n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$2,5001n/a
Caddie & Leadership Academy of Se Wi Inc$2,50021%
North Shore Library Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Puentes-Bridges Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Operation Dream Inc$1,00010%
Longhouse Reserve$50010%
Healing Hearts Hooves and Paws Rescue$5001n/a
Children's Hospital Foundation$50010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe University School of Milwaukee Corporation: $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMcC Scholars Foundation Inc: $37,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Wisconsin Inc: $18,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Humane Society: $14,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Oncology Services Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $10,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Stage Milwaukee: $8,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Repertory Theater Inc: $8,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJulie and Michael Tracy Family Foundation: $8,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Colony House Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMountain Lake Community Service Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMilwaukee Tennis and Education Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMcPreparatory School of Wisconsin Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFASD Communities: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWeyenberg Public Library Foundation Inc: $5,850 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDogs to Dog Tags Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCaddie & Leadership Academy of Se Wi Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOperation Dream Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLonghouse Reserve: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc

How much does James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc give?
James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $84,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (25%), Health (23%).
Who are James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation ($55k), The University School of Milwaukee Corporation ($38k), McC Scholars Foundation Inc ($38k).
Does James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc based?
James Wheeler Campbell Memorial Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 47 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-PF 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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