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Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
118
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$2.4MArts & Culture$1.5MHuman Services$989kYouth Development$862kPhilanthropy$638kHealth$583kHousing & Shelter$481kCrime & Legal$324kOther$0
02FY2025 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k76 grants · $416k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $580k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $255k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE WAU$100,000
META HOUSE INC$55,000
WHITEFISH BAY HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
FELLOWSHIP OPEN INC$50,000
MILWAUKEE AREA TECH COLLEGE FDN INC$40,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$35,000
ALIVE MKE INC$35,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC$30,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$26,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE INC$25,000
BREWERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORT$20,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$20,000
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$16,000
CLIMB USA INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $783k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%USHERS NEW LOOK INC: $5k → 13%SHARP LITERACY INC: $10k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $8k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $8k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $8k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $8k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $8k → 17%SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION: $13k → 17%SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $8k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $8k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $20k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $20k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $10k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN INC: $8k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $8k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $8k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE I: $20k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE I: $15k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE I: $15k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE I: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE I: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE I: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 17%MILWAUKEE WOMENS CENTER INC: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE I: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE I: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8k → 17%PAVE: $23k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 17%PAVE: $8k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $13k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 17%JOBSWORK MKE INC: $8k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUEE INC: $8k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUEE INC: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 148 repeat orgs$593k to everyone else

148 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

148
52

Total granted

$8.4M
$443k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+22%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OPEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $259k · revenue +493%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $251k · revenue +45%
  • META HOUSE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -16%
  • AM
    ALIVE MIKE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • DS
    DIVINE SAVIOR HOLY ANGELS HIGH SCHO
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

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.

Employment
4
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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5
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…

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6
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

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…

Environment
7
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

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.

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8
Employ Milwaukee Inc

The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…

Employment
9
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
10
Milwaukee Development Corporation

-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…

Community Improvement
11
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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12
Artworks for Milwaukee Inc

ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%4%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr20%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr20%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/184
the rest of the field
13%
709/5,604

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.

04the grantee network

173 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. 173 of the 222 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/173
Grantees still filing
110/173
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE WAU — $450,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE WAUMETA HOUSE INC — $232,500 · OtherMETA HOUSE INCALIVE MKE — $225,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF GTR MILWAUKEE — $150,000 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY — $170,000 · Other+106 more — $3,100,750 · Other+106 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $251,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLE…MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE AREA TE…ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC — $141,000 · EducationASSET BUILDERS OF…THE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $135,500 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATIO…Pearls for Teen Girls Inc — $105,000 · EducationPearls for Teen G…THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $85,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP CI…THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $80,000 · EducationTHE MILWAUKEE SCI…ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $76,000 · EducationDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC — $75,000 · EducationMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC — $55,000 · EducationLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 · Education+9 more — $192,000 · Education+9 moreMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $162,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPE…Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $100,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Hayma…MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE YOUT…JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC — $82,500 · Arts & CultureJOHN MICHAEL K…MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMP…UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORM…WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CONS…MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureARTS AT LARGE INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $42,500 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $279,000 · Arts & Culture+13 moreUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $107,500 · Human ServicesUNITED CO…MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE — $105,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE…MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE…SHARP LITERACY INC — $62,500 · Human ServicesSHARP LIT…HEAR Wisconsin Inc — $57,500 · Human ServicesHEAR Wisc…SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $47,500 · Human ServicesSECUREFUT…SERENITY INNS INC — $47,500 · Human ServicesSERENITY …JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORH…PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN — $30,000 · Human ServicesSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $30,000 · Human Services+11 more — $90,000 · Human Services+11 moreFELLOWSHIP OPEN INC — $259,000 · PhilanthropyFELLOWSHI…AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · PhilanthropyAURORA HE…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $87,500 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE…MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $77,500 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…Brewers Community Foundation Inc — $45,000 · PhilanthropyBrewers C…SOJOURNER FOUNDATION — $37,500 · Philanthropy+4 more — $40,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc — $62,000 · Housing & ShelterWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterLUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC — $202,500 · ReligionCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $45,000 · ReligionCITY ON A HILL INC — $15,000 · Religion+2 more — $10,000 · Religion
Other$4,328,250Education$1,425,500Arts & Culture$1,146,500Human Services$767,500Philanthropy$726,500Housing & Shelter$357,000Religion$272,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFELLOWSHIP OPEN INC — $259,000 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $251,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC — $232,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC — $202,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY — $170,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $162,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC — $141,000 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC — $135,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $120,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $107,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc — $105,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE — $105,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC — $100,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $95,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetMOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC — $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $87,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC — $85,000 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetJOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC — $82,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $82,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $80,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $80,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $77,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $76,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $67,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMequon Nature Preserve Inc — $67,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetSEEDS OF HEALTH INC — $67,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $65,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC — $62,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc — $62,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc — $57,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOMINICAN CENTER FOR WOMEN INC — $55,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARTS AT LARGE INC — $55,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budget
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 FELLOWSHIP OPEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSET BUILDERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORD OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Anon Charitable TrustGardner FoundationYouth Foundation IncBert L and Patricia S…Weiss Family Foundati…The Ros Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI177× affinity114 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Gardner Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Weiss Family Foundation · The Ros 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 Ralph Evinrude 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
73report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 222 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines