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Kim and John Schlifske Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$475k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$2.9MEducation$1.5MReligion$866kArts & Culture$840kCommunity Improvement$250kHuman Services$248kHealth$230kAnimals$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $660k
  • $250k+2 grants · $786k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL$475,000
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY$310,714
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$200,000
DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC$185,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC$125,000
THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$100,000
JOURNEY 21$50,025
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$44,200
ELMBROOK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$35,000
WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE MOTHER MARY CORPORATION$30,000
ST MARY'S VISITATION CATHOLIC PARISH$15,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$15,000
ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE$10,000
THE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND LIBERTY$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $55k → 7%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 12%THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $226k → 5%ABLELIGHT FOUNDATION INC (FKA BETHESDA): $25k → 8%ST ANNE'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $25k → 10%NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY INC: $25k → 17%LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $740k → 4%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $15k → 9%BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $55k → 7%THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $152k → 5%LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $652k → 4%BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $55k → 7%THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $150k → 5%DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $185k → 17%LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $557k → 4%BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $50k → 7%THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%JOURNEY 21: $102k → 5%DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $50k → 17%LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $510k → 4%THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%JOURNEY 21: $50k → 5%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE MOTHER MARY CORPORATION: $75k → 17%LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $475k → 4%ELMBROOK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60k → 5%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE MOTHER MARY CORPORATION: $50k → 17%ELMBROOK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $35k → 5%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE MOTHER MARY CORPORATION: $30k → 17%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE MOTHER MARY CORPORATION: $25k → 17%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE MOTHER MARY CORPORATION: $25k → 17%SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY: $311k → 17%SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $15k → 5%ST MARY'S VISITATION CATHOLIC PARISH: $451k → 5%ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $200k → 17%ST MARY'S VISITATION CATHOLIC PARISH: $20k → 5%ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $25k → 17%ST MARY'S VISITATION CATHOLIC PARISH: $15k → 5%HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC: $125k → 17%HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC: $125k → 17%HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC: $125k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $54k → 17%MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM: $50k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $44k → 17%ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY: $50k → 17%MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
KS
TN
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 16 repeat orgs$958k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
25

Total granted

$6.0M
$587k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+10%

Still filing today

75%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $371k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureReligionHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LO
    LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +5%
  • HH
    Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $375k · revenue +185%
  • DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $235k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • MC
    MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue -92%
  • ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -14%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
2
The Uwm Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
3
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
University of Wisconsin Foundation

To promote the welfare of and advance the objectives of the university of wisconsin-madison by encouraging the interest, engagement, and financial support of alumni, donors, and friends in the life of the university and with each other.

Education
6
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
University of Notre Dame du Lac

See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.

Education
9
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
10
John Carroll University

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…

Education
11
Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc

Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.

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12
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty; the most unlike its peers is Robert Conner Dawes Fund Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $2,933,500 · EducationLOVE ONE INTERNATIONALDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $235,000 · EducationDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INCST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $225,000 · EducationST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $215,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE+3 more: $129,700 · EducationCATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL OF WAUKESHA INC: $527,600 · OtherCATHOLIC MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL OF …ST MARY'S VISITATION CATHOLIC PARISH: $495,500 · OtherST MARY'S VISITATION CATHOLIC PAR…THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $350,000 · OtherTHE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUND…SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY: $310,714 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARYElmbrook Education Foundation Inc: $105,000 · Other+28 more: $253,750 · Other+28 moreHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $375,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementWomens Care Center of Milwaukee Mother Mary Corp: $205,000 · HealthISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $7,974 · HealthJourney 21 Inc: $152,025 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $250 · Housing & ShelterZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $50,000 · Animals
Education$3,738,200Other$2,042,564Arts & Culture$490,000Community Improvement$250,000Health$222,974Housing & Shelter$152,275Animals$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $2,933,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $375,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $235,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $215,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Care Center of Milwaukee Mother Mary Corp: $205,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetJourney 21 Inc: $152,025 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetElmbrook Education Foundation Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetMarquette University: $98,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC: $31,750 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetROBERT CONNER DAWES FUND LTD: $25,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCreighton University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY: $18,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE JOHN K MACIVER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMCC SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC: $6,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRYON RIESCH PARALYSIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,374 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Baird Foundation IncGreater Milwaukee Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Waukesha County Commu…Bradley Impact Fund I…Green Bay Packers Fou…Northwestern Mutual L…The Lynde and Harry B…United Way of Greater…Arzbaecher Family Fou…Lannon Stone Foundati…Marcus Corporation Fo…
Baird Foundation IncWI27.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Arzbaecher Family Foundation · Lannon Stone Foundation Inc · Marcus Corporation Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kim and John Schlifske Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kim and John Schlifske Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Kim and John Schlifske Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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