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Milwaukee Film Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Milwaukee Film Inc

To entertain, educate and engage our community through cinematic experiences.

$123k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
—
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$433kArts & Culture$89kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$40,000
Median grant
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States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTSPEAK MEDIA$72,375
CYCLE DOCUMENTARY$40,000
DEMOCRACY FILMS$10,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$482k · 6 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$482k
$40k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • AM
    ARTSPEAK MEDIA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $205k
  • BS
    BUFFALO STAMPEDE PRODUCTION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $89k
  • 3P
    371 PRODUCTIONS LLC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $88k

Funded once

  • LW
    LATINO WI FILMS LLC
    one grant, 2019 · $14k
  • BF
    BULLHORN FILMS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BS
    BITTER SEA LLC
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARTSPEAK MEDIA: $204,969 · OtherARTSPEAK MEDIABUFFALO STAMPEDE PRODUCTION: $89,263 · OtherBUFFALO STAMPEDE PRODUCTION371 PRODUCTIONS LLC: $87,543 · Other371 PRODUCTIONS LLCCYCLE DOCUMENTARY: $63,250 · OtherCYCLE DOCUMENTARYPLUCKED FILM LLC: $18,500 · OtherGIVE ME LIBERTY LLC: $18,050 · Other+5 more: $50,205 · Other+5 more
Other$531,780

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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 11 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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