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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.

$810k
Granted FY2019
22
Grants FY2019
21
Organizations funded FY2019
24%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 21
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 24% of the organizations Marlo Foundation Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
EnvironmentHealth
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201921$750k24%
FY201816$46k0%
FY201717$48kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Recreation & Sports$271kEnvironment$267kEducation$119kArts & Culture$68kHealth$60kYouth Development$48kHuman Services$47kPublic Benefit$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marlo Foundation Ltd supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc: $256,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetRestoring Lands Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUrban Ecology Center Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRiveredge Nature Center Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc: $34,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNext Door Foundation Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDiscovery World Ltd: $31,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCity Forward Collective Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetStars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Year Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers and Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLiteracy Services of Wisconsin Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDoor County Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMilwaukee School of Engineering: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Baird Foundation IncWI22.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Marlo Foundation Ltd?

Find your warmest path to Marlo Foundation Ltd 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.

About Marlo Foundation Ltd

How much does Marlo Foundation Ltd give?
Marlo Foundation Ltd reported 22 grants totaling $810,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Marlo Foundation Ltd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (30%), Environment (29%), Education (13%).
Who are Marlo Foundation Ltd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Camp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc ($256k), Restoring Lands Inc ($60k), The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc ($60k).
Does Marlo Foundation Ltd fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marlo Foundation Ltd accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marlo Foundation Ltd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
Where is Marlo Foundation Ltd based?
Marlo Foundation Ltd is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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