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The Cudahy Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $715k
- $250k+1 grant · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISCOVERY WORLD | $6,270,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $120,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $110,000 |
| WISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $100,000 |
| ACTS | $100,000 |
| MILWAUKEE BALLET | $75,000 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| CUDAHY FAMILY LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER | $20,500 |
| EMPLOY MILWAUKEE | $20,000 |
| MADACC | $20,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| TEENS GROW GREENS | $20,000 |
| WORLD OCEAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
DISCOVERY WORLD LTD6× · 2020–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +213% · 40% of their budget
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $514k · revenue +342%- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $405k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- MJMILWAUKEE JAZZ INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -4%
CITY YEAR INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +4%
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.
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
Making the arts accessible to all
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.
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…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employ Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. 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 45 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 41 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 DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PABST THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JAZZ INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Heavens Gait Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds PORTAL INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds World Ocean School Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS AT LARGE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Gardner Foundation · The Ros 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 The Cudahy Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% 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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