Wisconsin · Private foundation
Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $69M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 29% of the organizations Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 83 | $4.3M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $5.0M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $3.2M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $4.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc | $1,308,333 | 3 | 45% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $900,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Wellpoint Care Network Inc | $765,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc | $725,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $525,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $520,000 | 4 | 1% |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | $425,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Washington County Historical Society Inc | $405,000 | 3 | 11% |
| St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care | $400,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The World Orphan Fund Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 9% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc
How this is measured
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About Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust
- How much does Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust give?
- Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust reported 84 grants totaling $4,333,333 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
- What does Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (14%), Health (5%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc ($1.3M), Milwaukee Public Museum Inc ($900k), Wellpoint Care Network Inc ($765k).
- Does Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust based?
- Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust is based in WI.
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