· Private foundation
Milne Family Foundation
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 $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAUDATO SI' PROJECT | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE | $5,000 |
| BERNIE'S BOOK BANK | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CONFERENCE ON ASIANPACIFIC LDSP | $5,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF MIDWEST MUSEUMS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE | $5,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS | $5,000 |
| UW SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LSLAUDATO SI PROJECT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +944%
SHARP LITERACY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +8%- BTBRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
GOOD FRIEND INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -24%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
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The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective 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.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CONFERENCE ON ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds LAUDATO SI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds RESTORE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIEND INC ↗
- Who funds UEC MVP PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Milne Family Foundation 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.