· Private foundation
Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE | $250,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $50,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PBS | $40,000 |
| ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC | $35,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC - MILWAUKEE | $30,000 |
| HALES CORNERS LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| HALES CORNERS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
| VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $20,000 |
| WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
73 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 14 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $875k · revenue +301%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +24%
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY5× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- BBBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $77k · revenue +6%
- WAWISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK DEALERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $30k
- SSSPECIAL SPACES INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
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 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.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ms - Just Keep Moving Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 110 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 Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · The Ros Foundation · 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 Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus 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.
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.