· Private foundation
Ladky Associates Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EUREKA COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| UWBADGER | $1,360 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN JESUITS INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| ST FRANCIS BORGIA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $600 |
| CHS FINE ARTS | $500 |
| MILWAUKEE POLICE ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL | $300 |
| MILWAUKEE ARMED SERVICES | $200 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $200 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $200 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $200 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO | $200 |
| UNITY FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE CT | $100 |
| FIRST TEE OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN | $100 |
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 (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 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 +90% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +22%
TEENS GROW GREENS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $750 · revenue +90%- SFSHOREWOOD FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2025 · $200 · revenue ×14
Funded once
- MAMARQUETTE ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT & UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- MMISCELLANEOUSone grant, 2020 · $820
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 84 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 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 NORTHSHORE CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SHOREWOOD FOUNDATION 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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ladky Associates Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ladky Associates Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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