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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.2MYouth Development$189kHuman Services$143kPhilanthropy$116kCrime & Legal$110kEducation$82kPublic Benefit$61kHealth$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $250,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $266,964 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,964 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$830k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NBA FOUNDATION$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FULL OF GRACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $10k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY INC: $10k → 14%KIDS FORWARD INC: $15k → 10%GLOW 414: $10k → 17%PRISM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15k → 17%YOUR MOVE MKE INC: $15k → 17%MAROON CALABASH INC: $15k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 5 repeat orgs$762k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
49

Total granted

$1.3M
$762k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • NB
    NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +8%
  • MY WAY OUT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +451%
  • SOJOURNER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • HF
    HARLEY-DAVIDSON FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue -61%
  • RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $41k · revenue -17%
  • MENTOR GREATER MILWAUKEE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +301% · 28% 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.

04Its 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
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment
2
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
3
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
4
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
5
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
6
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
7
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment
8
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

—
9
All-in Milwaukee Inc

All-in milwaukee is a college completion program that provides financial aid, advising, program and career support to high potential, limited-income, diverse milwaukee students to complete college, build meaningful careers and transform…

Education
10
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
11
Artworks for Milwaukee Inc

ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.

Arts & Culture
12
Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc

Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Forward Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 55 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $1,150,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $41,203 · Youth DevelopmentRUNNING RE…MENTOR GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentMENTOR GRE…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEARN FRES…LEAD2CHANGE INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD2CHANG…PURPOSE DRIVEN SISTERS 2 INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPURPOSE DR…STRYV365 INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTRYV365 I…100 BLACK MEN OF MILWAUKEE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARLEY-DAVIDSON FOUNDATION INC: $43,590 · OtherHARLEY-DAVIDSON FOU…BLACK SPACE: $25,000 · OtherBLACK SPACEGreater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development: $25,000 · OtherGreater Milwaukee C…WISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherWISCONSIN WOMEN'S B…LAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC: $15,000 · OtherBENEDICT CENTER INC: $15,000 · OtherALMA CENTER INC: $12,500 · OtherMARUF INC: $15,500 · OtherI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - MILWAUKEE INC: $15,000 · OtherOUR COMMUNITY LTD: $22,500 · OtherOUR COMMUNITY LTDTRUE SKOOL INC: $20,000 · OtherTRUE SKOOL INCWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $15,000 · Other+13 more: $118,000 · Other+13 moreSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSTREET ANGELS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUR MOVE MKE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPRISM Economic Development Corporation: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAROON CALABASH INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesKIDS FORWARD INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFULL OF GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGLOW 414 INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropySOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyMY WAY OUT INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalSafe & Sound Inc: $30,000 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN EQUAL JUSTICE FUND INC: $7,500 · Crime & LegalMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $26,651 · EnvironmentWISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDWORK MILWAUKEE INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Environment
Community Improvement$1,150,000Youth Development$188,703Other$362,090Human Services$155,000Philanthropy$130,000Crime & Legal$72,500Environment$71,651

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $1,150,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEY-DAVIDSON FOUNDATION INC: $43,590 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $41,203 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMENTOR GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $37,500 over 1y, 28% of budgetMY WAY OUT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $26,651 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOUR COMMUNITY LTD: $22,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTREET ANGELS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTRUE SKOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARUF INC: $15,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - MILWAUKEE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUR MOVE MKE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetLAYTON BOULEVARD WEST NEIGHBORS INC DBA VIA CDC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRISM Economic Development Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGROUNDWORK MILWAUKEE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWISCONSIN VOICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMAROON CALABASH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBENEDICT CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEAD2CHANGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPURPOSE DRIVEN SISTERS 2 INC: $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetKIDS FORWARD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSTRYV365 INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFULL OF GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MILWAUKEE CO SUB LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WISCONSIN: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMKE YOUTH SPORTS ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetGLOW 414 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWOODLANDS SCHOOL INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN EQUAL JUSTICE FUND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% 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…United Way of Greater…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Green Bay Packers Fou…Baird Foundation IncBrewers Community Fou…Anon Charitable TrustRalph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Northwestern Mutual L…Greater Green Bay Com…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI69× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc 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 55 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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