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Rite-Hite Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Rite-Hite Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$589k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MArts & Culture$1.8MHealth$763kCrime & Legal$667kHuman Services$312kPhilanthropy$271kCommunity Improvement$129kInternational$94kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $357k
$3,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA - ANGOLA IN$140,000
MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION$100,000
PI SIGMA EPSILON NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$60,000
ALL-IN-MILWAUKEE$56,500
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL$30,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
DUBUQUE INITIATIVES$25,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$18,000
MID MICHIGAN COLLEGE$15,000
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$15,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$10,000
EBENEZER CHILDCARE CENTERS$10,000
CHICO STATE UNIVERSITY$6,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND$5,000
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $1k → 10%LIFES CONNECTION - MUKWONAGO CENTER INC: $2k → 5%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $3k → 12%LABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $3k → 12%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $10k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $1k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $1k → 17%SERENITY INNS INC: $1k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE: $250 → 17%JOURNEYS HOUSE INC: $1k → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $800 → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $500 → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $500 → 17%JOURNEYS HOUSE INC: $500 → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $500 → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $500 → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $500 → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $11k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $1k → 17%HEARTLOVE PLACE INC: $1k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $1k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $1k → 17%EBENEZER CHILDCARE CENTERS: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $500 → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
WY
IA
IN
PA
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 90 repeat orgs$814k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
88

Total granted

$5.4M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+25%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CU
    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $705k · revenue +8%
  • WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $648k · revenue +217%
  • FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $647k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • VW
    VERSITI WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +77%
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • TR
    THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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3
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
4
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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5
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health
6
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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7
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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8
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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9
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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10
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Green Lake Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

145 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 145 of the 215 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
142/145
Grantees still filing
99/145
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,116,100 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC: $647,300 · Arts & CultureFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC+14 more: $55,111 · Arts & CultureCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $705,000 · EducationCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INCTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $525,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILW…ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $156,000 · EducationALL-IN MILWAUKEE INCTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $121,500 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCON…+10 more: $98,250 · Education+10 moreYMCA - ANGOLA IN: $140,000 · OtherYMCA - ANGOLA INYMCA - DOOR COUNTY: $75,000 · OtherYMCA - DOOR COUNTYUNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE: $73,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DUBUQUEPI SIGMA EPSILON NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · OtherWISCONSIN BREAST CANCER SHOWHOUSE: $50,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE - COVID-19 FUND: $49,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $62,000 · Other+117 more: $671,950 · Other+117 moreVERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $253,100 · HealthVERSITI BLOOD…PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $189,850 · HealthPENFIELD CHIL…VERSITI WISCONSIN INC: $40,000 · HealthVERSITI WISCO…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $31,000 · HealthTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthAMERICAN VALOR FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Health+19 more: $150,500 · Health+19 moreWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $648,200 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN IN…+1 more: $11,500 · Crime & LegalMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementDUBUQUE INITIATIVES: $25,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $4,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesSERENITY INNS INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesEBENEZER CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLABORATORY TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $6,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENCE FIRST INC: $3,300 · Human Services+7 more: $10,600 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,818,511Education$1,605,750Other$1,180,950Health$720,450Crime & Legal$659,700Community Improvement$129,000Human Services$94,900

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $1,116,100 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $705,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $648,200 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetFLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC: $647,300 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $525,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetVERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $253,100 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $189,850 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $156,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $121,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $62,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPI SIGMA EPSILON NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $41,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVERSITI WISCONSIN INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $35,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN VALOR FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUBUQUE INITIATIVES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Cancer Support Network: $23,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $20,011 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSERENITY INNS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFINLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEBENEZER CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATHWAYS HIGH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABCD INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Anon Charitable TrustSixsibs Foundation IncJoseph and Vera Zilbe…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Milwaukee Jewish Fede…Baird Foundation IncHarley-Davidson Found…
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI84.5× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Sixsibs Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rite-Hite Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rite-Hite Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    40report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rite-Hite Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rite-Hite 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 215 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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