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Summerfest Foundation Inc

The corporation is organized for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of milwaukee world festival, inc., which is to promote an understanding of different cultures, the histories and traditions of various nationalities, harmony in the community, civic pride and provide a showcase for the performing…

$6.7M
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$6.7M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Arts & Culture$6.7MHousing & Shelter$23kCommunity Improvement$21kRecreation & Sports$13kHealth$10kYouth Development$10kEducation$5k
02FY2018 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
  • $250k+1 grant · $6.7M
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC$6,658,254
WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND$12,500
PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED$12,500
MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC$11,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $13k → 10%ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC: $6.7M → 17%MILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC: $30k → 17%WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND: $13k → 17%MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC: $11k → 17%MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC: $10k → 17%BLOOM 360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 17%NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

1
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
2
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

3
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
4
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
5
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

6
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

7
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
8
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

9
Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

10
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
11
Milwaukee Development Corporation

-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…

Community Improvement
12
Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc

Inspiring philanthropy, serving donors, strengthening communities, now and for future generations.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playworks Education Energized and the most unlike its peers is Wisconsin Preservation Fund Inc. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC — $6,688,254 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INCPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC — $21,000 · Community ImprovementMILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $10,500 · OtherBLOOM360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC — $10,000 · EducationNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$6,688,254Youth Development$22,500Housing & Shelter$22,500Community Improvement$21,000Other$10,500Education$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILWAUKEE WORLD FESTIVAL INC — $6,688,254 over 2y, 11% of budgetMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOM360 LEARNING COMMUNITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 IncWI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Summerfest 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Summerfest Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Summerfest Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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