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Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$5.1MScience & Tech$2.0MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$340kSocial Science$300kEnvironment$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $553k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.3M
$45,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc$1,212,288
Foundation for the Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology$900,000
American Online Giving Foundation Inc$803,451
Discovery World Ltd$500,000
Boys & Girls Club of Milwaukee$467,000
United Way of Greater Cleveland$413,500
United Performing Arts Fund Inc$215,000
American Red Cross$195,000
Milwaukee Parks Foundation$150,000
City Year Inc$150,000
The UK Online Giving Foundation$138,226
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$100,000
MIND Research Institute$100,000
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$100,000
Milwaukee Tech Hub (FOR-M)$75,000
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 (FY24–25, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SHARP Literacy: $40k → 17%SHARP Literacy: $40k → 17%American National Red Cross: $100k → 17%American National Red Cross: $45k → 17%United Community Center Inc: $20k → 17%United Community Center Inc: $20k → 17%IndependenceFirst Inc: $10k → 17%Greater Milwaukee Urban League: $25k → 17%Greater Milwaukee Urban League: $25k → 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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 31 repeat orgs$669k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
6

Total granted

$10M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+29%

Still filing today

77%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • DISCOVERY WORLD LTD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +104%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +10%
  • URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $150k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $145k · revenue +3%
  • AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE - MILWAUKEE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +144%
  • M(
    MMAC (Milwaukee Development Corp)
    one grant, 2024 · $30k

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
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
2
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

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3
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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4
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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5
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
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
8
Milwaukee World Festival Inc

The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

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11
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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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharp Literacy Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%7%5–10yr17%7%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr20%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%19%10–20yr18%7%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr20%56%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
12%
710/5,757

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

31 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. 31 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
12/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $2,324,576 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA C…AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,677,577 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $827,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND+1 more — $90,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation for the Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology — $1,800,000 · OtherFoundation for the Inspiration &…MIND Research Institute — $300,000 · OtherMIND Research InstituteCITY YEAR INC — $300,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCThe UK Online Giving Foundation — $269,439 · OtherThe UK Online Giving FoundationAmerican Red Cross — $195,000 · OtherAmerican Red CrossMilwaukee Tech Hub (FOR-M) — $150,000 · Other+10 more — $571,680 · Other+10 moreDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $1,050,000 · EducationDISCOVERY …Pearls for Teen Girls Inc — $40,000 · Education+2 more — $27,520 · EducationUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $430,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PE…MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE…MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE…AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE - MILWAUKEE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN A…MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $892,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentHARBOR DISTRICT INC — $80,000 · EnvironmentKEEP GREATER MILWAUKEE BEAUTIFUL — $20,000 · EnvironmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $145,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE — $50,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$4,919,153Other$3,586,119Education$1,117,520Arts & Culture$1,080,000Youth Development$982,000Environment$400,000Human Services$325,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $2,324,576 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,677,577 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 ART MUSEUM INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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
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.

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…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

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 Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp 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 · 10%1%5%11%20%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
1get no government money at all
11report 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 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.

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 41 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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