· Private foundation
R a Stevens Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| KATHY'S HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| ACTS HOUSING | $10,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE FILM | $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 (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 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 +38% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 53 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 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 CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Core El Centro Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ERAS SENIOR NETWORK 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 CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT LEARNING CENTER 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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization R a Stevens Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R a Stevens Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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