· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of KATHLEEN & FRANK THOMETZ CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $5,300 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,150 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI PARISH | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE BALLET | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY - HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART | $3,500 |
| THIENSVILLE-MEQUON ROTARY FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| FLORENTINE OPERA | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NORTH SHORE LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| ST JOHN'S ON THE LAKE | $1,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WI | $500 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY | $500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $500 |
| GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $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 (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 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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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
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
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation 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 56 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; 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 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 Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL 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 · 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
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 Kathleen & Frank Thometz Charitable Foundation 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.
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
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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