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Jennifer Friedman Hillis Family 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.

$265k
Granted FY2021
34
Grants FY2021
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$47kArts & Culture$46kEducation$44kReligion$10kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$5kHousing & Shelter$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2021 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $179,480 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $264,980 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k28 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Versiti$25,000
WMSE$25,000
Univ of South Carolina$25,000
Medical College of WI$10,000
Children's Hospital$10,000
St. Eugene's Catholic Church$10,000
Milwaukee Public Museum$9,580
Rogers Behavioral Health Foundation$5,800
The Ryan Sang Bipolar Foundation$5,000
St. Chrysostom's Day School$5,000
Shoot For Coop, Inc.$5,000
Adoption Services, Inc.$5,000
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin$5,000
Florentine Opera Co.$3,500
Milwaukee Public Museum$3,100
02Your field

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.

1
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Burnett Medical Center Inc

The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…

Health
3
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
4
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

5
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc

The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
7
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health
8
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

9
Milwaukee Catholic Home Inc

Rooted in our catholic tradition and commitment to christian love and community, milwaukee catholic home, inc. (mch) provides continuing care services for older adults.

Human Services
10
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
11
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

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…

12
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Midnight Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WMSE — $25,000 · OtherWMSEUniv of South Carolina — $25,000 · OtherUniv of South CarolinaSt. Eugene's Catholic Church — $10,000 · OtherSt. Eugene's Catholic ChurchMedical College of WI — $10,000 · OtherMedical College of WIChildren's Hospital — $10,000 · OtherChildren's HospitalST CHRYSOSTOM'S DAY SCHOOL — $5,000 · OtherShoot For Coop, Inc. — $5,000 · OtherADOPTION SERVICES INC — $5,000 · OtherThe Ryan Sang Bipolar Foundation — $5,000 · Other+13 more — $17,000 · Other+13 moreVERSITI INC — $25,000 · HealthVERSITI INCROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,800 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOS…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $12,680 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE P…FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureFLORENTINE …MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE A…FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionLAKE FOREST ACADEMY — $2,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $2,500 · EducationWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,000 · AnimalsREPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$117,000Health$30,800Arts & Culture$18,680Food & Nutrition$5,000Education$5,000Animals$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVERSITI INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $12,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOPTION SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Center Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWBCS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI19.5× affinity7 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 · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

03Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jennifer Friedman Hillis Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Jennifer Friedman Hillis Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $138k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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