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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
40
Grants FY2021
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
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01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$47kArts & Culture$46kEducation$44kReligion$10kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$5kHousing & Shelter$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2021 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $189,480, the rows itemized in this filing. The $264,980 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k34 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Versiti$25,000
Univ of South Carolina$25,000
WMSE$25,000
St. Eugene's Catholic Church$10,000
Medical College of WI$10,000
Children's Hospital$10,000
Milwaukee Public Museum$9,580
Rogers Behavioral Health Foundation$5,800
Adoption Services, Inc.$5,000
Shoot For Coop, Inc.$5,000
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin$5,000
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin$5,000
The Ryan Sang Bipolar Foundation$5,000
St. Chrysostom's Day School$5,000
Florentine Opera Co.$3,500
02Its field

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.

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.

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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.

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; 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 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. 15 of the 32 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ChurchChildren's Hospital: $10,000 · OtherChildren's HospitalMedical College of WI: $10,000 · OtherMedical College of WIShoot For Coop, Inc.: $5,000 · OtherADOPTION SERVICES INC: $5,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · OtherST CHRYSOSTOM'S DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherThe Ryan Sang Bipolar Foundation: $5,000 · Other+12 more: $15,000 · Other+12 moreVERSITI INC: $25,000 · HealthVERSITI INCROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,800 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HO…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: $10,000 · Food & NutritionLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $2,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,500 · EducationREPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$120,000Health$30,800Arts & Culture$18,680Food & Nutrition$10,000Education$5,000Housing & Shelter$3,000Human Services$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Baird Foundation IncHerbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Charities Aid Foundat…
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

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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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