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Marlo Foundation Ltd
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k16 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA | $250,000 |
| RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER | $60,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $60,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | $60,000 |
| THE OZAUKEE WASHINGTON LAND TRUST | $60,000 |
| THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| DISCOVERY WORLD | $25,000 |
| NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICA SCORES - MILWAUKEE | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +20%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +21%
CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +383%
Funded once
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +59%
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.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
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…
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…
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
To align the regional fresh water research community and water-related industries to establish the milwaukee 7 region as the global capital for fresh water research and education, through the advancement of scientific collaboration on…
To empower a constellation of environmental organizations working to care for our earth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 23 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 CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds STARS AND STRIPES HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Telly Foundation Ltd · Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Marlo Foundation Ltd 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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