· Private foundation
Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $25,000 |
| Wild Bear Nature Center | $25,000 |
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee | $18,333 |
| DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Milwaukee Domes Alliance | $15,000 |
| Milwaukee Public Library Foundation | $10,000 |
| BOULDER FOOD RESCUE | $10,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| Paragon Service Dogs | $10,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | $7,500 |
| OLD WORLD WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| Ecohab | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK | $5,000 |
| RezDawg Rescue | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 35 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +124%
- DCDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +97%
- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $63k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $30k
HUNGER TASK FORCE INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -17%
DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -38%
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
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
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…
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
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.
ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.
The mission of the zoological society is to take part in conserving wildlife and endangered species, to educate people about the importance of wildlife and the environment, and to support the milwaukee county zoo.
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…
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
To bring the full spectrum of music theatre works to a wide and diverse audience
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Elder Pet Care. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 112 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 THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRICKLEBEE CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARAGON SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DANCEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD WORLD WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds CAROUSEL OF HAPPINESS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds LATINO ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds RADIO MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMUR BELGIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC Belgian Heritage Center ↗
- Who funds Optimist Theatre ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation 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 Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 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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