How much did Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust grant in FY2022?

Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust reported 76 itemized grants totaling $4,979,501, out of $5,403,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing.

Where is Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust based?

Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust is based in WI.

Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.4M

Granted FY2022

Grants FY2022

States reached

$850k

Largest

01What you fund

0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$5.4MHealth$2.0MHuman Services$1.5MAnimals$728kEducation$558kYouth Development$391kEnvironment$317kCrime & Legal$280kOther$0

02FY2022 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 76 grants below total $4,979,501 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,403,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $423,499 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k16 grants · $76k
$10k–50k34 grants · $690k
$50k–250k22 grants · $2.0M
$250k+4 grants · $2.2M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$69M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Museum of Wisconsin Art	$850,000
Milwaukee Public Museum	$625,000
Milwaukee Center for Independence	$500,000
Milwaukee Art Museum	$250,000
Historic Haymarket Milwaukee (MPM)	$200,000
Zoological Society of Milwaukee County	$200,000
West Bend Community Foundation (Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc)	$166,000
Washington County Humane Society, Inc.	$107,500
World Orphan Fund	$100,000
St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care, Inc	$100,000
Milwaukee Center for Independence	$100,000
United Performing Arts Fund	$100,000
St. Augustine Preparatory Academy	$100,000
Journey House	$100,000
Kathy's House	$100,000

02Your edge

repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.9M · 57 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.9M

$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+13%

Still filing today

81%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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 PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
3× · 2018–2022 · $800k · revenue +7%
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
2× · 2021–2022 · $725k · revenue +12%
MA
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
3× · 2018–2022 · $420k · revenue +8%

Funded once

CH
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $525k · revenue +78%
SH
SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC
one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +18%
MY
MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC
one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +14% · 26% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

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Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Wisconsin Family Ties Inc

Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…

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Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…

Health

Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.

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West Bend Community Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals

Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/79

the rest of the field

3,022/36,447

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.

03the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 113 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

78/78

Grantees still filing

57/78

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$3,445,000Other$4,076,340Human Services$2,189,500Health$1,087,500Animals$592,501Education$530,000Environment$317,000

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI81.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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The camps

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By state

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State money flows

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