· Private foundation
The Gustav & Gladys Kindt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PILLOWS WITH WINGS | $6,079 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WI MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SAFE & SOUND INC | $5,000 |
| NEHEMIAH PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| META HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $4,000 |
| WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC | $4,000 |
| CENTRO HISPANO INC | $4,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $4,000 |
| NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY INC | $4,000 |
| ALL HANDS BOATWORKS | $4,000 |
| WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC | $4,000 |
| APRICITY | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
CITY ON A HILL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +40%
COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +5%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ECENTREPRENEURS COALITION INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -99%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SHSt Hyacinth Emergency Food Pantryone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 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.
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeds of Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Step Industries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 63 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 Nehemiah Project Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GATHERING OF SOUTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAD2CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Safe & Sound Inc ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR NEXT GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PILLOWS WITH WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MKE URBAN STABLES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer 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 Gustav & Gladys Kindt 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.
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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