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Plan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $65,000 |
| UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL | $65,000 |
| ALL HANDS BOAT WORK | $50,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S CENTER | $30,000 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $30,000 |
| PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER | $22,000 |
| RESTORING LANDS TRUST | $20,000 |
| NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE | $14,000 |
| WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC | $10,000 |
| FIRST STAGE | $7,000 |
| LIFE STRIDERS | $5,000 |
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, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% 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 +32% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $426k · revenue +138%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $295k · revenue +27%
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $162k · revenue +32%
Funded once
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -17%
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.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
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…
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND 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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Four-Four Foundation Inc · Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · John C Bock Foundation
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 Plan Foundation 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.
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.
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