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Sensient Technologies Foundation Inc

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.

$742k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.0MHealth$577kPublic Benefit$386kYouth Development$279kArts & Culture$219kHuman Services$192kHousing & Shelter$191kRecreation & Sports$188kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $540k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $163k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Merit Scholarship Corporation$62,955
Ronald McDonald House$50,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities$50,000
Womens Care Center$45,000
Friends of Father Judge High School$35,000
Drexel University$35,000
Marquette University High School$35,000
Mercy High School$35,000
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$25,000
Rawhide$25,000
Gesu Jesuit Catholic School$25,000
St Bakhita Catholic Worker House$25,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee$20,000
City Forward Collective$20,000
Kingdom Prep Lutheran High School$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $10k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%American Red Cross: $4k → 14%RAHAB'S DAUGHTERS: $10k → 14%RAHAB'S DAUGHTERS: $10k → 14%Rahabs Daughters: $10k → 14%RAHAB'S DAUGHTERS: $5k → 14%St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care: $15k → 17%St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care: $15k → 17%United Community Center: $15k → 17%United Community Center: $15k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 17%INDEPENDENCE FIRST: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $10k → 17%Down Syndrome Association of WI: $5k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $5k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $5k → 17%Down Syndrome Association of WI: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 73 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
63

Total granted

$3.9M
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+6%

Still filing today

52%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • NM
    National Merit Scholarship Corporation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $336k · revenue +34%
  • RI
    RAWHIDE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +31%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • WT
    Wine to Watergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +141%
  • DH
    DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
2
Madonna University

The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…

Education
3
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
4
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Marian University Inc

Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…

Education
8
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
9
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Walsh University Inc

Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is 3000 Miles to a Cure Co. 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

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 143 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
54/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ronald McDonald House Charities: $215,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House CharitiesMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherMARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLWomens Care Center: $175,000 · OtherWomens Care CenterMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $150,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONRAWHIDE INC: $145,000 · OtherRAWHIDE INCMERCY HIGH SCHOOL: $125,000 · OtherMERCY HIGH SCHOOLRonald McDonald House: $100,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME SCHOOLS OF MILWAUKEE: $92,500 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILW: $90,000 · OtherKINGDOM PREP LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $80,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST FOUND: $80,000 · Other+79 more: $869,263 · Other+79 moreNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $335,885 · EducationNational Merit Scholarship Co…FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $130,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH …YESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC: $115,000 · EducationYESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - M…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $80,000 · EducationCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $60,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUND…THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $52,500 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationMarquette University: $45,900 · Education+16 more: $141,443 · Education+16 moreMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $83,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesRahab's Daughters: $35,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $33,908 · Human ServicesST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $30,000 · Human ServicesDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN OF THE HEART-GREATER LACROSSE AREA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $10,500 · Human ServicesPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $100,000 · HealthFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 · Health+5 more: $9,500 · HealthCONSERVANCY FOR HEALING &: $85,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $18,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsTHRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC: $90,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $250 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,321,763Education$1,111,228Arts & Culture$213,000Human Services$194,408Health$179,500Recreation & Sports$155,500Crime & Legal$90,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $335,885 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAWHIDE INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC: $130,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetYESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC: $115,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR HEALING &: $85,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $83,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $80,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $60,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $52,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMarquette University: $45,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Bakhita Catholic Worker Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRahab's Daughters: $35,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $33,908 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $22,368 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWine to Water: $17,550 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK MILWAUKEE INC: $9,570 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGRAND AVENUE CLUB INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADOPTION SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gathering Source Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
  • Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FATHER JUDGE HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR HEALING & ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds St Bakhita Catholic Worker Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Rahab's Daughters ↗

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…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Baird Foundation IncThe Lynde and Harry B…Bradley Impact Fund I…Gardner FoundationHarley-Davidson Found…Anon Charitable TrustYouth Foundation Inc
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI44.9× affinity22 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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Gardner Foundation · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Youth Foundation Inc

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 Sensient Technologies Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sensient Technologies Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 143 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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