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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.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
196
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 2025.

Human Services$26MReligion$21MEducation$15MArts & Culture$6.4MHealth$5.1MPhilanthropy$4.4MYouth Development$3.3MFood & Nutrition$2.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 196 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 196 grants below total $11,645,686, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,847,189 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,201,503 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $303k
  • $10k–50k111 grants · $2.3M
  • $50k–250k32 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.5M
$17,100
Median grant
26
States reached
$280M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW DIRECTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $87k → 14%GILDAS CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN: $93k → 10%GILDAS CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN: $88k → 10%GILDAS CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN: $56k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1.6M → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1.1M → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1.0M → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1.0M → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $983k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $789k → 17%JEWISH HOME & CARE CENTER FOUNDATION: $506k → 17%JEWISH HOME & CARE CENTER FOUNDATION: $490k → 17%JEWISH HOME & CARE CENTER FOUNDATION: $421k → 17%Jewish Family Services - John Yopps: $401k → 17%JEWISH HOME & CARE CENTER FOUNDATION: $389k → 17%JEWISH HOME & CARE CENTER FOUNDATION: $382k → 17%JEWISH HOME & CARE CENTER FOUNDATION: $314k → 17%Jewish Home & Care Center Foundation: $305k → 17%Jewish Family Services: $153k → 17%METCALFE PARK COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $30k → 17%St Ann's Center for Intergenerational Care: $50k → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CTR: $3.0M → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2.2M → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1.9M → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CTR: $1.8M → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1.7M → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1.6M → 17%Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Ctr: $659k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $174k → 17%Jewish Community Food Pantry: $161k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $124k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $104k → 17%Steve & Shari Sadek Family Camp Interlaken JCC: $80k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $69k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $65k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $63k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $46k → 17%STEVE & SHARI SADEK FAMILY CAMP INTERLAKEN JCC: $43k → 17%Steve & Shari Sadek Family Camp Interlaken JCC: $33k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $32k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $67k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $35k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $33k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $32k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $31k → 17%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $776k → 17%GILDAS CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN: $59k → 17%SECUREFUTURES (MAKE A DIFFERENCE): $30k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$82M · 259 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

259
176

Total granted

$82M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+25%

Still filing today

78%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $766k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +17%
  • MILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.8M · revenue +10% · 36% of their budget
  • JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.7M · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • AC
    ANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWABgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $142k · revenue +36%
  • HH
    Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Incgraduated
    2× · 2023–2024 · $127k · revenue +185%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $112k · revenue +15%
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
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
2
Milwaukee Jewish Day School Inc

Where academic excellence and jewish values prepare children for a lifetime of success, leadership and engagement with the world.

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3
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
5
Minnesota Jewish Community Center

The minnesota jcc is dedicated to strengthening our community by providing inclusive programs that inspire personal growth, foster connection, and promote well-being through arts, culture, education, fitness, early childhood, day camp and…

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6
Minnesota Jewish Community Center Foundation

The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.

Human Services
7
Jewish Federation of Madison Inc

To inspire, build, and sustain vibrant jewish life by fostering diverse opportunities to connect at every age and mobilizing our community in common purpose, in madison, israel, and around the world.

Religion
8
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
9
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
12
Hillel Jewish University Center

To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

431 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
86
Early backer (in before they grew)
417/431
Grantees still filing
291/431
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC: $7,776,536 · OtherMILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INCHILLEL ACADEMY INC: $2,585,333 · OtherHILLEL ACADEMY INCCONGREGATION EMANU-EL BNE JESHURUN: $2,394,507 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL BNE JESHURUNLUBAVITCH OF WISCONSIN INC: $2,307,415 · OtherLUBAVITCH OF WISCONSIN INCUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $2,035,515 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL NER TAMID: $1,757,897 · OtherHILLEL MILWAUKEE: $1,379,458 · OtherCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION: $1,314,144 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $1,312,015 · Other+78 more: $16,101,167 · Other+78 moreTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $14,478,620 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEW…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,699,125 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INCJEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $3,131,808 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER FOUNDATI…+14 more: $1,675,794 · Human Services+14 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,757,063 · EducationYESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC: $1,430,227 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $559,958 · Education+26 more: $2,425,293 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $1,178,651 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $602,090 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $286,908 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $285,180 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $234,220 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $174,900 · PhilanthropyOREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $144,000 · PhilanthropyANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWAB: $142,155 · Philanthropy+11 more: $900,927 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $511,241 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $483,508 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $440,221 · Arts & CultureRUACH INC: $303,139 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $283,507 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $260,689 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $221,767 · Arts & CultureRADIO MILWAUKEE INC: $190,798 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $127,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $636,199 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $738,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $349,280 · HealthMIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $319,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $247,300 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $205,134 · HealthJEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER INC: $124,481 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $103,150 · Health+9 more: $438,990 · HealthHILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $909,347 · ReligionKBY Congregations Together Inc: $673,408 · ReligionTikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee Inc: $296,401 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $153,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $120,683 · Religion+7 more: $355,970 · Religion
Other$38,963,987Human Services$26,985,347Education$6,172,541Philanthropy$4,099,031Arts & Culture$3,458,069Health$2,525,835Religion$2,508,809

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $14,478,620 over 9y, 23% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC: $7,776,536 over 9y, 36% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,699,125 over 9y, 21% of budgetJEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $3,131,808 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,757,063 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC: $1,430,227 over 8y, 11% of budgetHILLEL MILWAUKEE: $1,379,458 over 8y, 56% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION: $1,314,144 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $1,312,015 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $1,178,651 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $909,347 over 9y, 18% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $839,000 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetOUR NEXT GENERATION INC: $835,150 over 9y, 26% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $738,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetRAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $735,650 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetNorthwestern University: $731,242 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $677,632 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetKBY Congregations Together Inc: $673,408 over 6y, 25% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $559,958 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $514,250 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $511,241 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $483,508 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $440,221 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $405,408 over 9y, 31% of budgetGRAND AVENUE CLUB INC: $358,868 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetTORAH ACADEMY OF MILWAUKEE FOR GIRLS INC: $354,598 over 8y, 11% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $349,280 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $329,757 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC: $325,200 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetMIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $319,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $305,600 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRUACH INC: $303,139 over 9y, 37% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL: $303,020 over 9y, 11% of budgetTikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee Inc: $296,401 over 9y, 43% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $286,908 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $285,180 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $283,507 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $273,804 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY INC: $265,480 over 7y, 13% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $260,689 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $247,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $234,220 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $226,500 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $222,368 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $221,767 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $205,134 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC: $204,994 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $200,530 over 7y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Anon Charitable TrustHarri Hoffmann Family…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Gardner FoundationGreen Bay Packers Fou…Peck Foundation Milwa…Jewish Federation of …
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI118.7× affinity88 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jewish Federation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Inner Fire Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 515 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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