· Private foundation
Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k167 grants · $612k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k81 grants · $7.3M
- $250k+16 grants · $9.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UWM FOUNDATION | $3,500,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC | $800,000 |
| THE BRIDGE PROJECT | $562,500 |
| REVITALIZE MILWAUKEE | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (CDA) | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE | $500,000 |
| LE JARDIN ACADEMY | $500,000 |
| SOJOURNER FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| HOUSING RESOURCES INC | $355,000 |
| LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC | $350,000 |
| WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORP | $324,000 |
| REVITALIZE MILWAUKEE | $300,000 |
| GUEST HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE | $275,000 |
| WISCONSIN WATCH | $266,667 |
| CASTLE MEDICAL CENTER DBA ADVENTIST HEALTH CASTLE | $260,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $13.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
233 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2025, 115 since wound down; 31 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $955k 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
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +0%
LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC8× · 2018–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +224% · 54% of their budget
Revitalize Milwaukee Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +93% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- UFUWM Foundationone grant, 2017 · $1.3M
- FHFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centerone grant, 2017 · $905k
- RRRunning Rebels Community Organization, Incone grant, 2017 · $500k
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.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
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.
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…
-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…
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…
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 (mhah) is to develop, own and manage multi-family rental communities serving families earning 20 to 80 percent of median income. mhah will assist its target families to become more self sufficient through…
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.
Hawaii island community development corporation was established on july 7, 1986, to provide families with low and moderate income with adequate housing and to acquire, construct and provide housing related activities.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cure Ald Foundation. 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 31 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
343 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. 343 of the 586 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC ↗
- Who funds Revitalize Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Castle Medical Center dba Adventist Health Castle ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKE SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE IN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HO'OLA NA PUA ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DATA YOU CAN USE INC ↗
- Who funds NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VISION HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds LE JARDIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds RIVERWORKS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST LTD ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Weiss Family Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Aloha United Way 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 Joseph and Vera Zilber Family 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.
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.
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