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Laskin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $780k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULAROSA HIGH SCHOOL | $240,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $210,000 |
| STEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC | $150,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC | $80,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC | $50,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE INC | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC | $45,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC | $20,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC | $17,500 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $15,000 |
| ALVERNO COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $12,500 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC | $12,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| PRESENT MUSIC INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k 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
- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC4× · 2022–2025 · $320k · revenue +16%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +20%- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOHN'S COMMUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +25%
FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +11%- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +11%
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.
Making the arts accessible to all
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…
Milwaukee ballet transforms lives and connects communities through inspiring performance, community engagement, education and training.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
To provide the finest collaborative environment for: supporting performing arts training and education for a diverse population of youth; nurturing youth from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, instilling life-skills…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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 corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Villa Terrace Museum and Gardens Ltd. 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 49 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 38 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 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds PRESENT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ACT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JAZZ INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds VILLA TERRACE MUSEUM AND GARDENS LTD ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center 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 · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Baird Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust
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 Laskin Family Foundation Inc 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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