· Private foundation
Max Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 99 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Max Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Max Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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