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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.

$7.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6.3M
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$8.5MArts & Culture$464kHealth$434kReligion$425kHuman Services$405kYouth Development$230kAnimals$188kEmployment$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

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
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

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.

area typical 12%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $145k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $110k → 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 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 18 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$10M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEmploymentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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 LTD
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7.1M · revenue +213% · 40% of their budget
  • ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $514k · revenue +342%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $405k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • MJ
    MILWAUKEE JAZZ INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    one 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.

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.

1
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

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.

2
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

3
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
4
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
5
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
6
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

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…

Education
7
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

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.

Employment
8
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

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…

9
Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

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…

Environment
10
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

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

Environment
12
Montessori Institute of Milwaukee Inc

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUrban Water & Nature Stewar…Milwaukee Charter SchoolsCommunity Health & Social S…Faith-Based Community Servi…Workforce Development Progr…Community Food AssistanceCommunity Foundations & Gra…Community Arts EducationMilwaukee Cultural Institut…Performing Arts Organizatio…
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 45 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr20%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr17%5%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr15%77%35–55yr20%8%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
12%
710/5,754

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
16/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $7,077,575 · EducationDISCOVERY WORLD LTDST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $514,240 · EducationST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INCTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $375,000 · Education+3 more — $60,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient — $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…ACTS — $414,700 · OtherACTSST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH — $235,000 · OtherST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHU…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $210,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE…CUDAHY FAMILY LIBRARY — $204,150 · OtherCUDAHY FAMILY LIBRARY+17 more — $280,000 · Other+17 moreMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC — $216,250 · Arts & CulturePABST THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $128,001 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE JAZZ INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $20,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $31,890 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $404,120 · HealthVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $20,000 · HealthUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $405,000 · Human ServicesWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $147,900 · AnimalsHeavens Gait Ranch Inc — $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$8,026,815Other$2,343,850Arts & Culture$464,141Health$424,120Human Services$405,000Animals$147,900Recreation & Sports$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD — $7,077,575 over 6y, 40% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $514,240 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $405,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $404,120 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $375,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC — $216,250 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $210,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $147,900 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPABST THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $128,001 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE JAZZ INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHeavens Gait Ranch Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $20,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN LIONS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTAL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEMPLOY MILWAUKEE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWorld Ocean School Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTS AT LARGE INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTERS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $9,640 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $7,750 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.

Baird Foundation IncWI31.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • World Ocean School Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Cudahy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cudahy Foundation 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 41 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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