Wisconsin · Public charity
Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc
Improve the quality of life for youth and families in wisconsin focusing on youth education, health, wellness and community betterment
- $267k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 84%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $250k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 28
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $830k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 84% of the organizations Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $572k | 84% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $675k | 93% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $534k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Basketball Association Foundation | $1,150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc | $43,590 | 1 | 0% |
| Running Rebels Community Organization Inc | $41,203 | 1 | 1% |
| Mentor Greater Milwaukee Inc | $37,500 | 1 | 28% |
| My Way Out Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Sojourner Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Safe & Sound Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc | $26,651 | 1 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Space | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc
- How much does Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc give?
- Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $250,000, out of $266,964 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (56%), Youth Development (9%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: National Basketball Association Foundation ($1.1M), Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc ($44k), Running Rebels Community Organization Inc ($41k).
- Does Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc based?
- Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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