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Ladky Associates Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EUREKA COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UWBADGER | $1,360 |
| AMERICAN JESUITS INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| ST FRANCIS BORGIA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $600 |
| CHS FINE ARTS | $500 |
| MILWAUKEE POLICE ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL | $300 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $200 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO | $200 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $200 |
| MILWAUKEE ARMED SERVICES | $200 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $200 |
| WISCONSIN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100 |
| SHOREWOOD FOUNDATION | $100 |
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 (FY21–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 +90% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 12 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +22%
TEENS GROW GREENS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $750 · revenue +90%- LCLAKE COUNTRY CARING INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200 · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MAMARQUETTE ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT & UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- MMISCELLANEOUSone grant, 2020 · $820
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
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…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
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…
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
To improve lives by sharing community resources
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Muscatine Humane Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 84 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 UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EUREKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds MEQUON-THIENSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE POLICE ASSOCIATION LOCAL 21 IUPA ↗
- Who funds The Christian Scholarship Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHORE CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY CARING INC ↗
- Who funds SHOREWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN 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 · 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
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 Ladky Associates 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.
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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