· Private foundation
Louis Ancel Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Congregation Agudas Achim | $1,200 |
| Jewish Museum Milwaukee | $736 |
| Center for Excelence in Education | $300 |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin | $150 |
| ACLU Foundation | $150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center | $150 |
| Milwaukee Public Museum | $135 |
| Individual grant recipient | $120 |
| US Holocaust Memorial Museum | $100 |
| MAA | $100 |
| Amherst College Fund | $100 |
| The Friendship Circle-Milwaukee | $93 |
| Discovery World | $85 |
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 (FY21–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
39 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC6× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +34%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC6× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +10%
- CFCenter for Excellence in Education8× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- JCJewish Community Foundationone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SJSt Johns on the Lakeone grant, 2018 · $1k
- HHIPPYone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
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.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 60 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 MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
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- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds CREATE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ABCD INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL 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: Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Daniel M Soref Rvoc Tr · Anon Charitable Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Pelz Family Foundation Inc · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Howard Frankenthal Family Foundation Ltd · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis Ancel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis Ancel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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