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Ladky Associates Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$200
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 27
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$130k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Ladky Associates Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$9k55%
FY202420$7k25%
FY202327$9k63%
FY202227$9k63%
FY202120$5k95%
FY202011$5kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$14kHuman Services$7kEducation$4kReligion$3kArts & Culture$2kHealth$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
IA
IN
CT
KS
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Community Center Inc$6,20050%
Eureka College$2,00010%
Teens Grow Greens Inc$75040%
Milwaukee Police Association Local 21 Iupa$50010%
Marquette University High School$4002n/a
Compel Family Life Center Inc$3001n/a
The Christian Scholarship Foundation Inc$25010%
Northshore Classical Academy$2501n/a
USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus Inc$2503n/a
Marquette University$25010%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Ladky Associates Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Community Center Inc$6,20050%
Eureka College$2,00010%
Teens Grow Greens Inc$75040%
Milwaukee Police Association Local 21 Iupa$50010%
Marquette University High School$4002n/a
Compel Family Life Center Inc$3001n/a
The Christian Scholarship Foundation Inc$25010%
Northshore Classical Academy$2501n/a
USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus Inc$2503n/a
Marquette University$25010%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$20010%
Cursillo in Christianity of the Arc Hdiocese of Milwaukee$2001n/a
Wisconsin Right to Life Inc$20020%
Shorewood Foundation Inc$20020%
Lake Country Caring Inc$20020%
Wisconsin Humane Society$2001n/a
Pabst Mansion Inc$15020%
St Marcus Lutheran Church$1501n/a
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty$15010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$10010%
Hunger Task Force Inc$10010%
Knights of Columbus 1709 South Milwaukee Council$10010%
HEAR Wisconsin Inc$10010%
Sacred Ground Hospice House$1001n/a
Muscatine Humane Society Inc$1001n/a
The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc$10010%
Christ Child Society$10010%
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc$10010%
Hales Corners Lutheran Church$1001n/a
Encompass Early Education & Care Inc$5010%
National Parks Conservation Association$2010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ladky Associates Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Community Center Inc: $6,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEureka College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeens Grow Greens Inc: $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Police Association Local 21 Iupa: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christian Scholarship Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMarquette University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Right to Life Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShorewood Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLake Country Caring Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPabst Mansion Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Task Force Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnights of Columbus 1709 South Milwaukee Council: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Child Society: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPro-Life Wisconsin Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEncompass Early Education & Care Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI28.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Mary Pauly Lacy Foundation Inc · Wilbert & Genevieve Schauer Foundatation 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.

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How do I get to Ladky Associates Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ladky Associates Foundation 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.

About Ladky Associates Foundation

How much does Ladky Associates Foundation give?
Ladky Associates Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $9,210 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Ladky Associates Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (31%), Human Services (16%), Education (9%).
Who are Ladky Associates Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Community Center Inc ($6k), Eureka College ($2k), Teens Grow Greens Inc ($750).
Does Ladky Associates Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ladky Associates Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ladky Associates Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
Where is Ladky Associates Foundation based?
Ladky Associates Foundation is based in WI.

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 84 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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