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Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Human Services$254kHealth$151kFood & Nutrition$56kEducation$52kArts & Culture$46kHousing & Shelter$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kEnvironment$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC$25,000
CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION$8,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$7,500
MACCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY$6,000
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center$6,000
ABLE INC$6,000
PROJECT ANGEL HUGS$6,000
SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ST ANN CENTER$5,000
RACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$5,000
FLORENTINE OPERA$5,000
NEW LIFE CHURCH$5,000
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN$3,000
ABOVE AND BEYOND CHILDRENS CORPORATION$3,000
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 (FY21–25, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ABLE INC: $6k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC: $25k → 9%VOLUNTEER CENTER OF RACINE COUNTY INC: $6k → 10%FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC: $25k → 9%VOLUNTEER CENTER OF RACINE COUNTY INC: $5k → 10%BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC: $3k → 10%FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC: $25k → 9%FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC: $25k → 9%FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC: $15k → 9%PROJECT ANGEL HUGS: $6k → 9%PROJECT ANGEL HUGS: $6k → 9%PROJECT ANGEL HUGS: $6k → 9%PROJECT ANGEL HUGS: $5k → 9%PROJECT ANGEL HUGS: $5k → 9%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $8k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $7k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WISCONSIN: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $3k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE: $4k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $6k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $4k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $4k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $4k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $3k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $3k → 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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$597k · 35 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
18

Total granted

$597k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+7%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionReligionEducationOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +92%
  • MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +25%
  • VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • RC
    RIGHTWAY CLUB INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • AS
    AUTISM SOCIETY OF SE WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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
Racine County Opportunity Center

Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…

Human Services
2
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
3
Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…

Health
4
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
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
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment
7
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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8
Family Voices of Wisconsin Inc

Provide training and informational materials to families of children and youth with disabilities to enable them to understand and use the supports and services provided by private and public health care and community systems.

Health
9
Rotary Club of Milwaukee

Provide services to social and civic organizations to promote social and civic involvement

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10
Wisconsin Voices Inc

Wisconsin voices provides technical assistance and resources to build capacity and leadership to 501(c)(3) organizations in support of commonly held values of equal opportunity, freedom, progress, and a government that works for all.

Civil Rights
11
Community Shares of Wisconsin Inc

Community shares of wisconsin (csw), together with its donors and approximately 70 member nonprofits, addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research and public education.

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12
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Coletta of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rightway Club Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyResidential Care CommunitiesLocal Service ClubsYouth Education and Develop…Family Philanthropic Founda…Milwaukee Community ServicesArts and Cultural Organizat…Minority Business & Economi…Racine County Community Ser…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%4%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr20%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr20%29%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
11%
1,110/9,845

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

47 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. 47 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
30/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $37,500 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $20,263 · OtherSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCPrevent Blindness Wisconsin — $20,000 · OtherPrevent Blindness WisconsinHope Center Inc — $18,763 · OtherHope Center IncIndividual grant recipient — $18,096 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · OtherABOVE AND BEYOND CHILDRENS CORPORATION — $13,263 · OtherVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC — $12,500 · OtherABLE AUDIO AND BRAILE LITERACY — $12,000 · OtherWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI — $12,500 · OtherRACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $11,263 · Other+28 more — $123,250 · Other+28 moreFRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INCPROJECT ANGEL HUGS — $28,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT ANGEL HUGSHEAR Wisconsin Inc — $18,096 · Human ServicesHEAR Wisconsin IncAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $17,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Cons…ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE — $14,500 · Human ServicesST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CA…DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesVOLUNTEER CENTER OF RACINE COUNTYINC — $11,000 · Human ServicesSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $19,500 · Human Services+4 moreVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $30,263 · HealthVISION FO…AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $10,763 · HealthAUDIO & B…RIGHTWAY CLUB INC — $10,000 · HealthRIGHTWAY …Core El Centro Incorporated — $2,500 · HealthChix 4 A Cause LTD — $2,500 · HealthIMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC — $2,000 · HealthMacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC — $35,263 · Public BenefitFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $13,596 · Arts & CultureCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES — $8,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $7,763 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $3,500 · Arts & CultureFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $13,263 · Food & NutritionTEENS GROW GREENS INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionFAMILY SHARING OF OZAUKEE COUNTY INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,263 · EducationST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 · Education
Other$314,398Human Services$245,596Health$58,026Public Benefit$35,263Arts & Culture$32,859Food & Nutrition$20,763Education$15,263

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 budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC — $115,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC — $35,263 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $30,263 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HUGS — $28,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $20,263 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin — $20,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHope Center Inc — $18,763 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc — $18,096 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE — $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC — $13,596 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $13,263 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI — $12,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $11,263 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF RACINE COUNTYINC — $11,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $10,763 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $10,263 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHTWAY CLUB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $7,763 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF MILWAUKEE — $6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDeKoven Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBig Sisters of Greater Racine Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH ROTARY CLUB INC — $4,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChix 4 A Cause LTD — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFISHING HAS NO BOUNDARIES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Green Bay Packers Fou…United Way of Greater…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Baird Foundation IncYouth Foundation IncFrancie Luke Silverma…Jerome J and Dorothy …The Ros FoundationOtto Bremer TrustHarri Hoffmann Family…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI56.3× affinity27 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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · The Ros Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Harri Hoffmann Family 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 Marjorie L Christiansen 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 67 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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