· Public charity
Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc
Through the development of community-wide financial support, planning and allocations, the mission of the milwaukee jewish federation is to ensure the continuity of the jewish people, to enhance the quality of jewish life and to build a strong, unified jewish community in milwaukee, in israel, and throughout the world.
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.
The 196 grants below total $11,645,686 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,847,189 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,201,503 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $303k
- $10k–50k111 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+8 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,629,842 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,044,856 |
| MILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $1,022,568 |
| BADER HILLEL ACADEMY | $497,416 |
| YESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $359,090 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL B'NE JESHURUN | $347,273 |
| JEWISH HOME & CARE CENTER FOUNDATION | $313,804 |
| LUBAVITCH OF WISCONSIN | $290,006 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $210,401 |
| HILLEL MILWAUKEE | $209,422 |
| KBY CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC | $200,578 |
| CONGREGATION SHALOM | $183,301 |
| JEWISH BEGINNINGS LUBAVITCH PRESCHOOL | $160,871 |
| CONGREGATION BETH JEHUDAH | $159,340 |
| UW HILLEL FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE | $141,881 |
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, $26.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
259 repeat relationships — 124 still active in FY2025, 135 since wound down; 48 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $766k 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
THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +17%
MILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7.8M · revenue +10% · 36% of their budget
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7.7M · revenue +64%
Funded once
- ACANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWABgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $142k · revenue +36%
- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Incgraduated2× · 2023–2024 · $127k · revenue +185%
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $112k · revenue +15%
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manoff Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
431 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. 431 of the 515 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR NEXT GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds KBY Congregations Together Inc ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF MILWAUKEE FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
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 Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc 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.
- Inner Fire Inc — 0% of income from government
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.