· Public charity
Joy Engine Inc
Joy engine, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $97,356 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $132,297 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,941 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ART INTERSECTION MKE | $10,000 |
| LATINO ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC KING DRIVE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC | $10,000 |
| ARTS LARGE | $10,000 |
| MILLENNIAN LLC | $10,000 |
| HARBOR DISTRICT INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FUNK ENTERPISES LLC | $10,000 |
| THE MIDDLE GROUND INC | $9,856 |
| BERNARD ART STUDIO LLC | $7,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.
WVA champions and supports visual artists working within the state by forging partnerships that make creative opportunities possible.
Redline Milwaukee is an arts and culture incubator located in a depressed and transitional neighborhood in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The mission of Redline Milwaukee is to serve the community through arts and educational programs with…
The mitchell street arts collaborative mission is to promote cross-cultural connection and equitable development.
To increase the availability and quality of african american arts and culture.
The District supports programs designed to promote beautification, accessibility and public entertainment within the Riverwalk District.
Westbrook arts & culture vitalizes westbrook by supporting the city's cultural assets, integrating arts and culture into community life, and showcasing westbrook as a great place to live and visit. through arts advocacy, education,…
Kendall Whittier celebrates the fusion of old and new by preserving history and promoting growth. We embrace the entrepreneurial spirit by fostering inclusion and cultivating a rich, creative and colorful environment for businesses to…
Non Profit Art Organization
Our mission is to interact with all artists, civic, and art organizations - acting as an advocate for arts in all forms in the madison, in area, and to promote the area as an arts and creative destination.
Our vision is to create a diverse and inclusive arts ecosystem where every artist, regardless of status, identity, or background, has the opportunity to achieve potential, flourish as a creative professional, and thrive in communities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sculpture Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bronzeville Center for the Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 22 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 LYNDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS AT LARGE INC ↗
- Who funds Imagine MKEInc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds BRONZEVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC KING DRIVE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILIA DE ARTE INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW STATE INC ↗
- Who funds ART INTERSECTION MKE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM ART AND INTEGRATED THERAPIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTOWN ASSOCIATION OF MILWAUKEE 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 · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Rdk Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Wisconsin Humanities Council Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Joy Engine 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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