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Sfc Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$291k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$217kHealth$187kYouth Development$97kInternational$95kHuman Services$94kArts & Culture$59kHousing & Shelter$44kPublic Safety & Disaster$39kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$25,000
MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FD$25,000
UNICEF USA$20,000
GIVEWELL$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$10,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$10,000
KAUKAUNA ALUMNI FOUNDATION LTD$10,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$10,000
THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM F$5,000
MILWAUKEE POLICE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%GOLDEN HOUSE INC: $1k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $3k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $2k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $2k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE: $1k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE: $1k → 17%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE: $500 → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $1k → 17%SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $1k → 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

IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
AZ
TN
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$773k · 49 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
18

Total granted

$773k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+15%

Still filing today

73%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +247%
  • THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $76k · revenue +5%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • MF
    MACC FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -52%
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
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
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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5
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
10
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Judith Antoine Shanley Foundation. 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

61 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. 61 of the 82 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
40/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION DREAM INC: $80,000 · OtherOPERATION DREAM INCMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FD: $50,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FDHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $38,200 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEECHILDREN'S HOSPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM F: $25,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM FMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $23,500 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONHOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $16,500 · OtherMILWAUKEE VA MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $22,000 · Other+30 more: $134,200 · Other+30 moreAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $80,500 · PhilanthropyAURORA HEALTH CA…THE CLEAR FUND: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUNDMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $18,400 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH…KAUKAUNA ALUMNI FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKAUKAUNA ALUMNI …GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUN…ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 · EducationTHE UWM FOUND…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL C…DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $6,000 · EducationUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,000 · InternationalUNITED STA…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · InternationalHABITAT FO…CAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA…HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalHELEN KELL…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…ONE ACRE FUND: $5,000 · InternationalONE ACRE F…NEW INCENTIVES: $5,000 · InternationalNEW INCENT…THE CARTER CENTER INC: $5,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FA…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CO…SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesSILVER SP…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED W…+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $25,000 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE GREENWICH HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $5,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $600 · Arts & Culture
Other$434,400Philanthropy$143,900Education$116,500International$90,000Human Services$85,500Health$76,500Arts & Culture$30,600

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 budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $80,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION DREAM INC: $80,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $75,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $38,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $18,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAUKAUNA ALUMNI FOUNDATION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetRAWHIDE INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONEGOAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW INCENTIVES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $3,000 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.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…Baird Foundation IncRalph Evinrude Founda…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Anon Charitable TrustUnited Way of Greater…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Green Bay Packers Fou…Charter Manufacturing…Gardner FoundationSTACKNER FAMILY FOUND…The Ros Foundation
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI39.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · The Ros 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 Sfc Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sfc Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sfc Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sfc Inc 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 82 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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