· Private foundation
Plunkett Family Foundation
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 $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATRE | $19,950 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANK | $5,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| CENTRAL HICKORY COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE | $1,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF MILWAUKEE | $350 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $100 |
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, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 77% 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
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +91%
FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $67k · revenue +38%- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MMPTVone grant, 2021 · $10k
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +49%- CLCEDAR LAKE YACHT CLUBone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -52%
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.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
Making the arts accessible to all
Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The mission of madison opera is to produce operas of the highest artistic standards.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
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…
The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 73 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 REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKE YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRESENT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds Optimist Theatre ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Gardner Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · National Center for Housing Management Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Plunkett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plunkett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mather Homestead Foundation: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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