· Private foundation
Maxsan Foundation Co Jean-Max and Sandra J Dermond
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 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 $10k12 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOJOURNER TRUTH PEACE CENTER | $12,000 |
| MATC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $8,500 |
| MAM (MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM) | $8,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $7,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN | $5,500 |
| BENEDICT CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TEENS GROW GREENS | $4,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| MILWAUKEE PBS | $2,000 |
| UWM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $797 |
| UWM | $750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +27%
BENEDICT CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +89%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Clubone grant, 2017 · $6k
- SMSt Marcus Schoolone grant, 2017 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
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…
Making the arts accessible to all
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 organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods
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.
Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Public Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Teens Grow Greens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 36 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 MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds DANCEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds TALL PINES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE PARK FRIENDS LTD ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ABCD INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Astor Street Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · The Ros Foundation
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 Maxsan Foundation Co Jean-Max and Sandra J Dermond 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.
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.