· Private foundation
Mary Pauly Lacy Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOOL | $10,000 |
| THREE HOLY WOMEN PARISH | $8,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| JESUITS USA MIDWEST PROVINCE | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $3,000 |
| WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $2,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATRE | $2,000 |
| KINSHIP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $2,000 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MILWAUKEE | $1,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ALZHIEMER'S ASSOCIATION WISCONSIN CHAPTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMental Health America of Wisconsin Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +107%
- MUMarquette University3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +14%
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CECATHOLIC EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
- PPBSone grant, 2023 · $1k
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -9%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
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.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
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…
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
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.
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
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…
How this is measured
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 109 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health America of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Giddens School ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Pauly Lacy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Pauly Lacy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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