· Private foundation
Mary Martha & Emmett J Doerr Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of Mary Martha & Emmett J Doerr Charitable Trust’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Blessed Sacrament | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Red Cloud Indian School | $25,000 |
| Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Chur | $15,000 |
| Nativity Jesuit Academy | $15,000 |
| Notre Dame School of Milwaukee | $15,000 |
| Jesuit Retreat House | $12,500 |
| Society of Jesuits | $12,500 |
| Life's Connection | $10,000 |
| Les Cheneaux Community Foundation | $10,000 |
| St Joan Antida High School | $7,500 |
| Three Harbors Council | $6,000 |
| School Sisters of St Francis | $5,000 |
| St Anthony School Milwaukee | $5,000 |
| Repairers of the Breach | $4,000 |
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, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- LCLIFE'S CONNECTION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +559%
- MSMIDDLEBRIDGE SCHOOL INC4× · 2018–2022 · $56k · revenue +20%
- CPCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +89%- UMUSA Midwest Province Jesuitsone grant, 2021 · $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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Children's services
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
44 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. 44 of the 95 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 LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBRIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOME INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds MOUNT TABOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH DALLAS SHARED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
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: Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Sensient Technologies Foundation Inc · The Burke Foundation Inc · Mary Pauly Lacy Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Harley-Davidson 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 Mary Martha & Emmett J Doerr Charitable Trust 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.
- Visiting Nurse Association of the Treasure Coast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% 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.