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Laskin Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3MEducation$362kPhilanthropy$304kFood & Nutrition$150kHealth$132kHuman Services$61kYouth Development$25kEnvironment$19k
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $780k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALVERNO COLLEGE$15,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND$15,000
MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER$12,500
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC$12,000
HEPATITIS B FOUNDATION$10,000
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAINT JOHNS COMMUNITIES INC: $15k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 27 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
5

Total granted

$2.9M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+25%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MA
    MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $320k · revenue +16%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +20%
  • HH
    Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S COMMUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +25%
  • FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +11%
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +11%
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
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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2
Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc

Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

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…

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5
Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc

Milwaukee ballet transforms lives and connects communities through inspiring performance, community engagement, education and training.

Arts & Culture
6
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
9
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
11
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
12
Milwaukee World Festival Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; 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.
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 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,240,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $320,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INCMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $156,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INCMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $153,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INCHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee IncUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $104,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $130,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreTULAROSA HIGH SCHOOL: $240,000 · OtherTULAROSA HIGH SC…STEPPING STONES OF DUNN COUNTY INC: $150,000 · OtherSTEPPING STONES …UNITED PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $30,000 · OtherUNITED PERFORMIN…+9 more: $66,000 · Other+9 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $54,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $91,000 · HealthHEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $41,000 · HealthALVERNO COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S COMMUNITIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC: $3,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$2,253,500Other$486,000Philanthropy$304,000Health$132,000Education$112,000Human Services$60,000Youth Development$25,000Environment$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,240,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $320,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $156,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $153,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $104,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $91,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRESENT MUSIC INC: $72,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $54,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHEPATITIS B FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT ACT THEATRE INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S COMMUNITIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE JAZZ INSTITUTE INC: $11,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLY MUSIC INC: $4,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetVILLA TERRACE MUSEUM AND GARDENS LTD: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $2,000 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Bert L and Patricia S…Baird Foundation IncMilwaukee Jewish Fede…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Richard and Ethel Her…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Gardner FoundationAnon Charitable Trust
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI35.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Laskin Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laskin Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Laskin Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Laskin 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 38 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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