How much did SOMMERHAUSER FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of SOMMERHAUSER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

nch healthcare

2019

auroraclinicgreater milwaukee

2020

churchmilwaukeeclinic

2021

hospicebethsynagoguecancercaremilwaukeehealth

2022

nch healthcaregreater milwaukee

2023

congregationwaymilwaukee

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $28k
$10k–50k4 grants · $67k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$429k

Total assets

Largest grants

CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC$27,652
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$15,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC$14,000
MAYO CLINIC$10,000
NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC$7,500
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW$5,000
AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER$2,500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES$1,000
HUSKERS ATHLETIC FUND (UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION)$1,000
UW CARBONE CANCER CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION)$1,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$1,000
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC$1,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC$500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$464k · 26 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$464k

$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+37%

Still filing today

46%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +14%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
5× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +35%
MC
MAYO CLINIC
3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +29%

Funded once

CH
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $25k
UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE COUNTY
one grant, 2017 · $20k
GI
GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -93%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

University of Wisconsin Foundation

University of wisconsin foundation aids university of wisconsin-madison by soliciting gifts & bequests, administers & invests securities & properties, & distributes payments for the benefit of university of wisconsin - madison.

Education

Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing funding for scholarships and grants and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement

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

The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

University of Wisconsin Medical

University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation (UWMF) supports the teaching, research and service missions of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health by promoting the delivery of excellent and innovative patient care…

Health

Minnesota Hospital Foundation

Advance individual & community through leadership, advocacy, and collaboration

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Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee school of engineering (the "university") is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level for men and women in the disciplines of engineering, business, mathematics,…

Education

American Civil Liberties Union

American civil liberties union of wisconsin foundation, inc. protects and promotes the civil liberties and civil rights of all wisconsin residents by means of litigation, advocacy, public education, research, and organizing.

Civil Rights

Milwaukee Area Technical

Support milwaukee area technical college by raising funds for scholarships/program support.

Education

University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

The foundation exists to support the university of wisconsin - green bay in its quest to provide an education to all who seek one. this is done through scholarship, research support, capital acquisitions, and investing in the staff and…

Education

Employ Milwaukee Inc

Build a strong workforce development system to ensure a skilled and productive workforce.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Uwm Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 52 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/42

the rest of the field

2,638/36,484

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.

05the grantee network

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

30/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$283,202Philanthropy$119,600Health$90,850Education$62,650Arts & Culture$3,550Youth Development$1,400Public Benefit$1,200

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ge Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Pelz Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Brewers 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 organisation SOMMERHAUSER FOUNDATION INC 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JOSEPH P METTNER FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~24 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 272776052 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JOSEPH P METTNER FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 24 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sommerhauser Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sommerhauser Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SOMMERHAUSER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sommerhauser Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

SOMMERHAUSER FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

38 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sommerhauser Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph