· Private foundation
Pelz Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k19 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH ISREAL NER TAMID | $18,681 |
| MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP | $5,000 |
| CHABAD ON CAMPUS - MILWAUKEE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH MUSEUM MILWAUKEE | $4,300 |
| CONGREGATION SHALOM | $3,365 |
| MIM | $500 |
| ST THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| ROHR CHABAD HOUSE | $500 |
| CONGREGATION AGUDAS ACHIM CHABAD | $400 |
| STAND UP TO CANCER | $400 |
| LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $250 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $250 |
| CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION | $200 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $180 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125 |
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, $955) 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 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.
38 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +32%
GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +16%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $7k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $53k
- HEHOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER EDUCATION FDone grant, 2020 · $40k
- PCPELZ CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFEone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
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 research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
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…
Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 83 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 MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
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: Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Howard Frankenthal Family Foundation Ltd · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Daniel M Soref Rvoc Tr
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pelz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pelz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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