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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
City Year Inc$150,000
Milwaukee Parks Foundation$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
Urban Ecology Center$75,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

—
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…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 41 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
16/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 DevelopmentMILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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 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
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…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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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.
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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 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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