· Private foundation
Pollybill 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE INC | $200,000 |
| MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WI INC | $15,000 |
| FASD UNITED | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM - LAYTON ART COLLECTION | $10,000 |
| MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| 142 THROCKMORTON THEATRE | $10,000 |
| ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $5,000 |
| FOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC | $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 (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 4 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; $110k 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
- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +64%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC6× · 2017–2023 · $245k · revenue +20%
FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $113k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- VCVANGUARD CHARITABLE - HOLTGERS FAMILY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $957k
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $957k · revenue -30%
- HCHORIZON COMMUNITY SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST HOME HISTORIC PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHE-CAN GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND 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 · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pollybill Foundation Inc 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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