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Mallinger Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAUKESHA HOPE CENTER INC | $48,000 |
| LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC | $35,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $17,500 |
| LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC | $15,000 |
| THE HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY | $15,000 |
| PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY SMILES DENTAL | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $10,000 |
| WAUKESHA FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY | $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 (FY17–25, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC8× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +175%
LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +45%
HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES6× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HCHope Center Renovationsone grant, 2023 · $34k
- FPFamily Promiseone grant, 2023 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Kenosha community health center, inc.'s purpose is to provide primary care and referral health services to disadvantaged and underserved populations and promote and ensure that basic primary health services are accessible to uninsured and…
The Housing Action Coalition brings together community resources to address the needs of Waukesha Countys most vulnerable people. The Coalition assists those in need of emergency housing, financial assistance, food and many other…
WCC of Milwaukee Corp provides pregnancy resources such as education, counseling, free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, tangible assistance, assistance, and parenting supplies to financially disadvantage women.
Provide programs and resources that address financial security and social connections by engaging neighbors to support and empower one another.
To ensure that men, women, and children in the greater milwaukee area receive the quality health care, behavioral health, housing, and supportive services they need in order to live at the highest possible level of self-sufficiency.
Provide resources and services to empower homeless families and individuals of washington county wisconsin.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
The mission of women and children's horizons, inc. is to provide support, shelter, education, training, and healing services to victims of sexual and domestic abuse, their families, and the community.
Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…
Building stronger communities, strengthening families, and empowering individuals through compassionate, life changing programs and mental health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY 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 · Waukesha County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Generac 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 Mallinger Family Foundation 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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