Wisconsin · Public charity
Midwest Urban Strategies
Improve the economic conditions of the midwest region, with targeted focus on urban areas, to serve and advance the needs and interests of the region's diverse populations, employers, workers, job seekers and workforce development professionals.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $282,904
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $534,627
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $825k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Midwest Urban Strategies funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $1.4M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $1.9M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $596k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $198k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full Employment Council Inc | $2,180,094 | 5 | 7% |
| Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas Inc | $1,480,181 | 5 | 7% |
| Trwib Inc | $865,513 | 5 | 1% |
| Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board | $690,479 | 2 | n/a |
| Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation | $534,627 | 1 | 1% |
| The Center of Workforce Innovations Inc | $473,037 | 2 | 2% |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Midwest Urban Strategies
- How much does Midwest Urban Strategies give?
- Midwest Urban Strategies reported 5 grants totaling $1,419,169 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Midwest Urban Strategies fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (100%).
- Who are Midwest Urban Strategies's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Full Employment Council Inc ($2.2M), Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas Inc ($1.5M), Trwib Inc ($866k).
- Does Midwest Urban Strategies fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Midwest Urban Strategies?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Midwest Urban Strategies based?
- Midwest Urban Strategies is based in WI.
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