Wisconsin · Community foundation
Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust
Support for the rotary club of milwaukee's charitable projects.support to the rotary club of milwaukee's scholarship program.
- $244k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $135k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $135k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $74k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $71k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $49k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $64k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $186k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $179k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rcm Community Fund | $154,000 | 4 | 35% |
| Urban Ecology Center Inc | $124,174 | 7 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Public Library Foundation Inc | $63,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Soldiers Home Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| River Revitalization Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Wisconsin World Affairs Council Inc | $20,800 | 3 | 5% |
| Reading Is Fundamental Inc | $18,988 | 2 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of Milwaukee Cty | $17,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inc
How this is measured
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About Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust
- How much does Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust give?
- Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust reported 8 itemized grants totaling $134,700, out of $243,698 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Environment (21%), Arts & Culture (21%).
- Who are Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rcm Community Fund ($154k), Urban Ecology Center Inc ($124k), Milwaukee Public Library Foundation Inc ($63k).
- Does Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust based?
- Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Trust is based in WI.
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