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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.

$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$36kHousing & Shelter$21kHuman Services$19kArts & Culture$16kAnimals$14kFood & Nutrition$12kEducation$11kReligion$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$518
Median grant
9
States reached
$31k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION$3,000
PAWSITISM INC$3,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND UPAF$2,500
JUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC$2,500
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $250 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%THE BABY FOLD: $250 → 11%WASHINGTON COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET: $500 → 6%ACTS 1728 DANCE INC: $100 → 5%APTIV FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%APTIV FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%ROOTED & RISING - WASHINGTON PARK: $1k → 17%THE HAASE HOUSE - HAASE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 5%HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%NEXT 18: $2k → 17%THE PROJECT GRACE FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%ACTS 1728 DANCE INC: $250 → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $200 → 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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
IA
IN
PA
CA
MD
TN
DC
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$70k · 21 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
59

Total granted

$70k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+11%

Still filing today

62%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • Center for Veterans Issues Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • AF
    APTIV FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • HUNGER TASK FORCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -17%
  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +27%
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
Hope Safehouse Inc

Care of stray and homeless animals

Animals
2
Missaukee Humane Society

Humane treatement of animals

Animals
3
Dodge County Humane Society Inc

Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.

Animals
4
Humane Society of Waupaca County Inc

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.

Animals
5
Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals
6
Autism United Inc

To improve the quality of life for each child, teen and adult on the autism spectrum.

Health
7
Menominee Animal Shelter Inc

Caring for stray cats and dogs.

Animals
8
Hope House of Manitowoc County Inc

Helping families and individuals experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence.

Human Services
9
Underdog Pet Rescue of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Animals
10
Oconto Area Humane Society & Animal Shelter Inc

Oconto area humane society is an open-admission shelter dedicated to providing protection, care and shelter for abandoned and homeless campanion animals

Animals
11
Hope Center Inc

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…

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12
Family Promise of Waukesha County Inc

Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good in the 'Hood; 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.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 120 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
41/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF PERPETUAL: $9,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN SISTERS OF PERPETUALUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND UPAF: $5,000 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $4,655 · OtherLA CROSSE FAMILY YMCA: $4,500 · OtherKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD: $4,500 · OtherFORWARD SCHOLARS LLC: $3,500 · OtherVIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Other+69 more: $58,612 · Other+69 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN LUN…SISTERS LYME AIDE: $2,000 · HealthSISTERS LYME…TELLURIAN INC: $2,000 · HealthTELLURIAN IN…HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $1,500 · HealthHOPE STREET …FACES The National Craniofacial Association: $1,000 · HealthFACES The Na…+7 more: $1,600 · Health+7 moreCenter for Veterans Issues Inc: $10,105 · Housing & ShelterCenter for …MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterMILWAUKEE C…Home of the Sparrow Inc: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterHome of the…ADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterADVOCATES O…APTIV FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAPTIV FOUND…THE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY A…Haase Community Connections Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesHaase Commu…NEXT 18 INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesNEXT 18 INCUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesUNITED METH…THE PROJECT GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE PROJECT…+6 more: $2,050 · Human Services+6 moreKOKOMO HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $3,250 · AnimalsEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · AnimalsGREAT RIVER RESCUE: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsFOX VALLEY HUMANE ASSOCIATION LTD: $1,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsNeenah Animal Shelter Inc: $600 · AnimalsSAVING PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $500 · Animals+1 more: $250 · AnimalsUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyTEE UP FORE THE CURE INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyBuild the Future Foundation In: $500 · PhilanthropyFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $2,650 · Food & NutritionJUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARE: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$94,767Health$18,600Housing & Shelter$17,605Human Services$17,050Animals$11,100Philanthropy$7,500Food & Nutrition$7,150

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 budgetCenter for Veterans Issues Inc: $10,105 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPTIV FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $4,655 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD SCHOLARS LLC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKOKOMO HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $3,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $3,109 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $2,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOneHope27 Inc: $2,550 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEE UP FORE THE CURE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN INDEPENDENT LEARNING COLLEGE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSISTERS LYME AIDE: $2,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTELLURIAN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE NAVIGATORS INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESPIRATORY HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPTG COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHaase Community Connections Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMKE URBAN STABLES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT 18 INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLannon Junior Baseball Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFACES The National Craniofacial Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOY ENGINE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMENOMONEE FALLS LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PROJECT GRACE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOX VALLEY HUMANE ASSOCIATION LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLegacy Ball Club Inc: $750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGatherings On The Green Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNeenah Animal Shelter Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Evan & Marion Helfaer…United Way of Greater…Baird Foundation IncHarley-Davidson Found…STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Anon Charitable TrustYouth Foundation IncJoseph and Vera Zilbe…The Lynde and Harry B…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI38.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robertson Ryan & Associates Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robertson Ryan & Associates Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%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
    19report 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 Robertson Ryan & Associates Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Robertson Ryan & Associates 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 120 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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