· Private foundation
R a Stevens Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| NOTRE DAME MIDDLE SCHOOL | $16,200 |
| ELMBROOK SENIOR TAXI | $15,000 |
| TEENS GROW GREENS | $10,000 |
| ACTS HOUSING | $10,000 |
| ADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| KATHY'S HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE CATHEDRAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $429k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +36%
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +113%- ENELMBROOK NEW BERLIN SENIOR TAXIINC6× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +156%
Funded once
MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +97%- MIMESSMER INCone grant, 2018 · $15k
- ALADULT LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -28%
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 milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
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…
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
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…
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…
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.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
Legacy redevelopment corporation (lrc) is a non-profit community development financial institution (cdfi) revolving loan fund whose mission is to enhance neighborhood vitality, facilitate a sustainable and economically diverse community,…
Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Services of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 53 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 SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELMBROOK NEW BERLIN SENIOR TAXIINC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds Core El Centro Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWTHREADS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT LEARNING CENTER 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 · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Otto Bremer Trust
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 R a Stevens Family 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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