· Private foundation
Plan Foundation
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 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 FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Plan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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