· Private foundation
Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY | $119,350 |
| VISION FORWARD | $100,000 |
| BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $51,000 |
| NORTHSHORE LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER | $50,000 |
| MARCUS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $50,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $24,000 |
| MILWAUKEE BALLET | $20,000 |
| FUNDING ARTS BROWARD | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| CONGREGATION SHALOM | $11,000 |
| MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN | $11,000 |
| JEWISH HOME & CARE CTR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HEAR WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 9 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $607k · revenue +5%
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +91%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +34%
Funded once
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +36%- MJMILWAUKEE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $8k
- CYCOA YOUTH & FAMILYone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
Making the arts accessible to all
To provide the finest collaborative environment for: supporting performing arts training and education for a diverse population of youth; nurturing youth from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, instilling life-skills…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code ("irc") and for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
Support the south milwaukee performing arts center and community arts
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
How this is measured
81 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. 81 of the 140 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUNDING ARTS BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME AND CARE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Venetian Arts Society Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABCD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Imagine MKEInc ↗
- Who funds CAMP THUNDERBIRD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Gardner Foundation · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
- Holy Cross Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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