· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAUDATO SI' PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF MIDWEST MUSEUMS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE | $5,000 |
| CONFERENCE ON ASIANPACIFIC LDSP | $5,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UW SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY | $5,000 |
| ILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT | $5,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS | $5,000 |
| BERNIE'S BOOK BANK | $5,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
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…
The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…
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…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIEND INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UEC MVP PROJECT INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Milne Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milne Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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