· Private foundation
Rosemann Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $392k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater | $130,000 |
| RIDGES SANCTUARY | $101,000 |
| SIX MILE CYRESS SLOUGH PRESERVE | $100,000 |
| IONA HOPE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $61,035 |
| Northern Sky Theater | $28,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF N NEVADA | $28,000 |
| PAUL'S PANTRY | $19,000 |
| Gladiolus food Pantry | $15,000 |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee | $15,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC | $14,000 |
| RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $12,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| United Way of Lee County | $10,000 |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank | $10,000 |
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, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +32% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $426k · revenue +32%- TRTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $407k · revenue +98%
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $274k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- HHHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +64%
- ARAmerican Red Crossone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CFCommunity Foundation Collier Countyone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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…
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…
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.
The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 71 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 NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Reno Chamber Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community 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 Rosemann Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
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.