· Private foundation
Robertson Ryan & Associates Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of ROBERTSON RYAN & ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $4,500 |
| MILWAUKEE CHRISTIAN CENTER | $3,500 |
| MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN | $3,109 |
| PAWSITISM INC | $3,000 |
| FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION | $3,000 |
| JUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND UPAF | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $2,400 |
| SMILES | $2,000 |
| SUPPORT THE TROOPS | $2,000 |
| ONE HOPE 27 | $1,750 |
| RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $1,750 |
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 (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
Center for Veterans Issues Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +13%- AFAPTIV FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +17%
- ALAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +9%
Funded once
THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -17%
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +27%
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.
Care of stray and homeless animals
Humane treatement of animals
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
The Humane Society of Waupaca County (HSWC) provides the following services for the citizens of Waupaca County and the surrounding area. HSWC provides shelter, veterinary care, spaying and neutering and adoption services for homeless pets.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
To improve the quality of life for each child, teen and adult on the autism spectrum.
Caring for stray cats and dogs.
Helping families and individuals experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence.
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
Oconto area humane society is an open-admission shelter dedicated to providing protection, care and shelter for abandoned and homeless campanion animals
The Hope Center seeks out and teams with volunteers from congregations of many faiths.The Center is committed to serving people in need in Waukesha County, Wisconsin through financial assistance, food, child care, clothing and…
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good in the 'Hood and the most unlike its peers is The Stiff Person Syndrome Research. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 120 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 Center for Veterans Issues Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds APTIV FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD SCHOLARS LLC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds KOKOMO HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds OneHope27 Inc ↗
- Who funds TEE UP FORE THE CURE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INDEPENDENT LEARNING COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds TELLURIAN INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS LYME AIDE ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds RESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds PTG COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Haase Community Connections 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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Anon Charitable Trust · Youth Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc
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 Robertson Ryan & Associates 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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