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Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
35
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,212,288
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$8.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$5.1MScience & Tech$2.0MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$340kSocial Science$300kEnvironment$170kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc$2,324,57622%
Discovery World Ltd$1,050,00027%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$892,00021%
United Way of Greater Cleveland$827,00022%
United Performing Arts Fund Inc$430,00023%
City Year Inc$300,00020%
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$200,00021%
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$200,00020%
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc$150,0001n/a
Urban Ecology Center Inc$150,00021%
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All grantees of Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc$2,324,57622%
Discovery World Ltd$1,050,00027%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$892,00021%
United Way of Greater Cleveland$827,00022%
United Performing Arts Fund Inc$430,00023%
City Year Inc$300,00020%
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$200,00021%
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$200,00020%
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc$150,0001n/a
Urban Ecology Center Inc$150,00021%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$145,00010%
Milwaukee Public Museum Inc$100,00020%
African American Leadership Alliance - Milwaukee Inc$100,000117%
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc$90,00020%
Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc$90,00021%
Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation$90,00022%
Sharp Literacy Inc$80,00024%
Harbor District Inc$80,00024%
STEM Forward Inc$70,000210%
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation Inc$50,00021%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc$50,00020%
Milwaukee Urban League$50,00021%
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee$40,00021%
Pearls for Teen Girls Inc$40,00021%
United Community Center Inc$40,00020%
Zoological Society of Milwaukee Cty$30,00020%
Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful$20,00027%
National Merit Scholarship Corporation$17,52010%
Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland$10,00011%
Independence First Inc$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc: $2,324,576 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDiscovery World Ltd: $1,050,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc: $892,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cleveland: $827,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUnited Performing Arts Fund Inc: $430,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCity Year Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMilwaukee Repertory Theater Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Ecology Center Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $145,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAfrican American Leadership Alliance - Milwaukee Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGirl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMilwaukee Public Schools Foundation: $90,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSharp Literacy Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetHarbor District Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSTEM Forward Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMilwaukee Public Library Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMilwaukee Art Museum Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Urban League: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBig Brothers and Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Community Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZoological Society of Milwaukee Cty: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKeep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful: $20,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $17,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater Cleveland: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIndependence First Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Ralph Evinrude Founda…United Way of Greater…Brewers Community Fou…Harley-Davidson Found…Generac Foundation IncBaird Foundation IncNorthwestern Mutual L…Green Bay Packers Fou…Direct Supply Foundat…Waukesha County Commu…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI29.4× affinity12 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 · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Generac Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Direct Supply Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp?

Find your warmest path to Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp 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.

About Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp

How much does Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp give?
Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp reported 35 grants totaling $6,196,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (11%), Science & Tech (4%), Education (4%).
Who are Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($2.3M), Discovery World Ltd ($1.1M), Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc ($892k).
Does Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc.
Where is Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp based?
Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp is based in WI.

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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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