· Private foundation
Kathleen & Frank Thometz Charitable Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $5,300 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,150 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI PARISH | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE BALLET | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY - HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART | $3,500 |
| THIENSVILLE-MEQUON ROTARY FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NORTH SHORE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| ST JOHN'S ON THE LAKE | $1,000 |
| FLORENTINE OPERA | $1,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $500 |
| GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $500 |
| RIVER HILLS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 10 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +5%- MUMarquette University8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +46%
- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC7× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- JBJane Bradley Pettit Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -36%
- MHMARQUETTE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k
- HHHEILIGER HUEGEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
Alverno college prepares women for lives of personal and professional distinction and meaningful engagement with the world. alverno also extends this mission by offering graduate and adult programs to women and men.
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 122 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF BASIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Read Foundation Inc f/k/a The Merrill Foundation Inc · Sixsibs Foundation Inc · Mary Pauly Lacy Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kathleen & Frank Thometz Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kathleen & Frank Thometz Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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