· Public charity
City Forward Collective Inc
Cfc's mission is to secure the future of milwaukee and its institutions, economy, and quality of life by ending educational inequity and ensuring every child has the opportunity to attend a high-quality school.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| LUMIN SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $50,000 |
| ST MARCUS LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| ST ANTHONY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| NOTRE DAME MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $50,000 |
| MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| GREENHOUSE E3 | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $374k · revenue +342%
ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION4× · 2020–2023 · $330k · revenue +60%- MSMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC4× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- VSVARIOUS SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $995k
- CACFC ACTION FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $105k
- BEBELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +27%
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.
A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Our mission is to seed a new model of public education that ensures young children are on track to succeed in a college or career preparatory program from birth through high school graduation.
To prepare scholars to build character and accept of the value of various cultures
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
The mission of milwaukee math and science academy, inc. is to create a learning community in which:-teachers, parents and students work together to develop young people who are confident and achieve academic excellence in a powerful…
To create a montessori environment where the child's early experiences with learning will help him or her to become a self-confident, competent, cooperative adult.
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Private school dedicated to education of children from pk4 through grade 12.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc and the most unlike its peers is Serve Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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
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 ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CFC ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BELLWETHER EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds CARMEN HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD ↗
- Who funds ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SERVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Greenhouse E3 ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Milwaukee Excellence Inc ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Hh Camp Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc
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 City Forward Collective 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.
- City Year Inc — 21% 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.