· Private foundation
Max Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUASIMONDO INC | $32,450 |
| MILWAUKEE TURNERS INC | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH YEHUDAH | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF HAITI INC | $10,000 |
| HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION SHIR HADASH | $2,360 |
| CHABAD OF DOWNTOWN | $1,900 |
| CONGREGATION NEVEI KODESH | $1,800 |
| THE OPTIMIST THEATRE | $1,800 |
| THE SHALOM CENTER | $1,800 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| NICE PLAYS INC | $1,000 |
| HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY CENTER | $439 |
| CREATE WISCONSIN | $360 |
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 (FY18–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 TURNERS INC4× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +293%
Optimist Theatre5× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%- BCBAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +371%
Funded once
- JSJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +24%
- FAFRACTURED ATLAS INC (SILLSSPOLIN THEATER WORKS)one grant, 2021 · $5k
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTDone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -57%
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 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…
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To organize pro-israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy americans to promote us policies that embody our deeply held jewish and democratic values and that help secure the state of israel as a democratic homeland for the jewish people.
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
The organization ignites positive change in the cultural, social and economic vitality of its community by creating world-class theater experiences that entertain, provoke and inspire meaningful dialogue among an audience representative of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 99 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 QUASIMONDO INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE TURNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Live Oak Institute ↗
- Who funds YOUTHAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Optimist Theatre ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR ↗
- Who funds NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE INTERCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD ↗
- Who funds THE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JOURNEY HOUSE ACTIONS RWANDA INC ↗
- Who funds IN TANDEM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT ACT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Performing Arts Fund Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Youth Foundation Inc · Briggs & Stratton Corporation Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Dorothy Inbusch 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 Max Fund Inc 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.
- Americares Foundation 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.
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