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Our Lady of the Lake Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Our Lady of the Lake Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$841k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$725k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

87% of Our Lady of the Lake Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Archdiocese Of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’20
6
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$737kEducation$130kInternational$20kReligion$9kRecreation & Sports$4kHealth$300Arts & Culture$175Other$0
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k9 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
  • $250k+1 grant · $725k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$725,000
ST FRANCIS BORGIA SCHOOL$60,000
ST FRANCIS BORGIA SCHOOL$13,000
MESSMER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$10,000
ANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT$10,000
HOPE FOR HAITI$10,000
SEATON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$2,000
DIOCESE OF VENICE IN FLORIDA$2,000
DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL$1,279
Individual grant recipient$1,000
NATIONAL SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GOOD$1,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$300
DIVINE SAVIOR HIGH SCHOOL$200
MILWAUKEE PBS$75
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Order of Malta: $2k → 17%DIOCESE OF VENICE IN FLORIDA: $2k → 9%HOPE FOR HAITI: $10k → 10%ST FRANCIS BORGIA SCHOOL: $60k → 6%NATIONAL SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GOOD: $1k → 10%Messmer Catholic Schools: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $2k → 13%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $300 → 14%Missionary Oblates: $72 → 16%Diocese of Venice: $2k → 9%ST FRANCIS BORGIA SCHOOL: $13k → 6%MESSMER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $10k → 17%University of Notre Dame: $2k → 13%St Francis Borgia: $6k → 6%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $725k → 17%SEATON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 17%Archdiocese of Milwaukee: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC STEWARD APPEAL: $1k → 17%DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 17%Dominican High School: $1k → 17%Marquette University: $20k → 17%Milwaukee PBS: $100 → 17%MILWAUKEE PBS: $75 → 17%Divine Savior Holy Angles: $1k → 17%DIVINE SAVIOR HIGH SCHOOL: $200 → 17%United Way of Greater Milwaukee: $12k → 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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32k · 3 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$32k
$44k

Still filing today

0%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
InternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MI
    MESSMER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k
  • DH
    DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k
  • MP
    Milwaukee PBS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $175

Funded once

  • MU
    Marquette University
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 22 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)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $725,000 · PhilanthropyARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $12,000 · PhilanthropyST FRANCIS BORGIA SCHOOL: $73,000 · OtherST FRANCIS BORG…MESSMER INC: $30,000 · OtherMESSMER INCIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherSEATON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC: $5,000 · Other+12 more: $12,776 · Other+12 moreMarquette University: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $4,000 · EducationHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $10,000 · InternationalANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · International
Philanthropy$737,000Other$126,776Education$24,000International$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $725,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMarquette University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS 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.

Archdiocese of Milwau…Evan & Marion Helfaer…United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Our Lady of the Lake Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Our Lady of the Lake Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Our Lady of the Lake Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Our Lady of the Lake 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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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