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Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust at a glance

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Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$5.4MHealth$2.0MHuman Services$1.5MAnimals$728kEducation$558kYouth Development$391kEnvironment$317kCrime & Legal$280kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $785k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wellpoint Care Network$600,000
Museum of Wisconsin Art$433,333
Malaika Early Learning Center$250,000
Meto-House, Inc.$250,000
Milwaukee Repertory Theater$200,000
West Bend Community Foundation (Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc)$166,000
World Orphan Fund$100,000
United Performing Arts Fund$100,000
Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance$100,000
Journey House$100,000
St. Augustine Preparatory Academy$100,000
Medical College of Wisconsin$100,000
Milwaukee Art Museum$100,000
St. Anthony Congregation (School)$100,000
Milwaukee Public Museum$100,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 67 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
45

Total granted

$12M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+13%

Still filing today

76%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    4× · 2018–2024 · $900k · revenue +7%
  • WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $765k · revenue +31%
  • MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $725k · revenue +12%

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
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.

03Its field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
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
4
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

—
5
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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6
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
7
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
8
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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9
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
10
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
11
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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12
One Wisconsin Now Inc

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

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

97 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. 97 of the 141 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/97
Grantees still filing
61/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

West Bend Community Foundation (Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc): $1,364,000 · OtherWest Bend Community Foundation (Museum of…WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC: $765,000 · OtherWELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INCMeto-House, Inc.: $250,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $220,000 · OtherHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee (MPM): $200,000 · OtherCEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $244,500 · Other+73 more: $2,955,340 · Other+73 moreMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC: $1,308,333 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INCMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $900,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INCMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $520,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INCUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $425,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INCWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $405,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SO…MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INCMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $325,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $725,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CENTER F…ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $400,000 · Human ServicesST ANN CENTER FOR …The World Orphan Fund Inc: $300,000 · Human ServicesThe World Orphan F…SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR OF SHE…LAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesLAKESHORE REGIONAL…JOURNEY HOUSE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INCBalance Inc: $152,000 · Human ServicesBalance IncNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE…+8 more: $202,000 · Human Services+8 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $525,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $230,000 · HealthKathy's House Inc: $100,000 · HealthHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $85,000 · HealthST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $65,000 · HealthPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $50,000 · Health+6 more: $102,500 · HealthMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $250,000 · EducationST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $200,000 · EducationBOOKWORM GARDENS INC: $125,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $100,000 · EducationELKHART LAKE-GLENBEULAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $100,000 · EducationCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $75,000 · EducationLA CAUSA INC: $50,000 · EducationLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $40,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $240,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $200,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $190,001 · AnimalsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $32,500 · AnimalsUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropySOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,998,840Arts & Culture$4,533,333Human Services$2,649,000Health$1,157,500Education$1,065,000Animals$662,501Philanthropy$435,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC: $1,308,333 over 3y, 45% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $900,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetWELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC: $765,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $725,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $525,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $520,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $425,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $405,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $400,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetThe World Orphan Fund Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $300,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $244,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $240,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $230,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $225,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $220,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $200,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $200,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $190,001 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $175,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC: $170,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetBalance Inc: $152,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $145,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWEILL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBOOKWORM GARDENS INC: $125,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC: $122,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKathy's House Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $85,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC: $75,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTERINC: $55,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Baird Foundation IncRalph Evinrude Founda…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Anon Charitable TrustWest Bend Community F…Otto Bremer TrustMilwaukee Jewish Fede…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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Find your warmest path to Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5.7M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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