· Private foundation
Speaker Family Foundation of 2004
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| USO | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $544k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
34 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC6× · 2018–2023 · $430k · revenue +33%
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC6× · 2018–2023 · $220k · revenue +57%- MAMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $215k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- TATIMOTHY AND NANCY SPEAKER FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $116k · 100% of their budget
- JAJAMES AND CHRISTINE SPEAKER FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $116k · 100% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +39%
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The mission or core purpose of fisher house wisconsin (fhw) is to:1. provide a "home away from home" for families of veterans and service members receiving medical care from any designated veterans administration (va) hospital or medical…
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
To support members of the military and their families
Aurora family service partners with families to enhance their capability to anticipate, identify and manage challenges they face in their everyday lives through the integration of health, mental health, and social services providing…
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Provide resources and services to empower homeless families and individuals of washington county wisconsin.
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…
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Timothy and Nancy Speaker Family Foundation. 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 40 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 42 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 URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAD LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIMOTHY AND NANCY SPEAKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES AND CHRISTINE SPEAKER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT PINK NFP ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AFAR INC DBA THE ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PINEVIEW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC ↗
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: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · James and Christine Speaker Family Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Speaker Family Foundation of 2004 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.
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.
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