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Marcus Corporation Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$149k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$3.3MPhilanthropy$963kEducation$846kCommunity Improvement$210kYouth Development$107kHealth$77kAnimals$60kHuman Services$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARNARD COLLEGE$50,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC$20,000
MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC$20,000
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC$10,100
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC$10,000
MILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
DONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION$10,000
VINCE LOMBARDI CANCER FOUNDATION INC$5,000
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC$5,000
FELLOWSHIP OPEN INC$2,500
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC$1,800
MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC$1,500
VERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INC$1,000
CHILDRENS OUTING ASSN$1,000
MILWAUKEE POLICE ASSOCIATION FALLEN HEROES INC$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%EAST MADISON COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100 → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $4k → 17%AFAR INC: $500 → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
CA
NE
DC
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 30 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
54

Total granted

$4.6M
$377k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+18%

Still filing today

93%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +14%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $505k · revenue +37%
  • THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +6%
  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +53%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +52%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

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4
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
5
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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6
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
7
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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8
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

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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
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
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
12
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mpc Endowment 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr15%7%35–55yr16%63%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
14%
6,283/43,855

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.

04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 97 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
53/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $1,290,000 · Arts & CultureMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,260,750 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $212,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INCMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC — $127,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $347,236 · Arts & Culture+16 moreENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $500,000 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUS…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $450,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREAT…+7 more — $25,650 · PhilanthropyTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $505,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLL…THE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATI…BARNARD COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE+9 more — $35,650 · EducationGreater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development — $39,700 · OtherMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC — $20,500 · OtherACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATOIN — $20,000 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S & WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE JAZZ INSITITUTE INC — $10,000 · OtherWISCONSIN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherRush University Medical Center — $20,000 · OtherUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $16,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 · OtherACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Other+40 more — $57,700 · OtherMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC — $150,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $500 · Community ImprovementBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $101,000 · Youth DevelopmentZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY — $60,000 · Animals+1 more — $200 · Animals
Arts & Culture$3,237,486Philanthropy$975,650Education$840,650Other$258,900Community Improvement$150,500Youth Development$101,000Animals$60,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARCUS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $1,290,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,260,750 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $505,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $450,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $212,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC — $150,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC — $127,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $101,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $100,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGreater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development — $39,700 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC — $26,850 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC — $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE JAZZ INSTITUTE INC — $16,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $14,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $11,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBrewers Community Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarquette University — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC — $6,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetANN'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCREATE WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION DREAM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREAT LAKES HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABCD INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEMPO Milwaukee Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMilwaukee Press Club — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC — $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERNON AREA REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND AVENUE CLUB INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Anon Charitable TrustEvan & Marion Helfaer…Green Bay Packers Fou…Baird Foundation IncWaukesha County Commu…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Peck Foundation Milwa…Richard and Ethel Her…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI64.7× affinity33 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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld 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 Marcus Corporation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Marcus Corporation Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Marcus Corporation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 97 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home