· Private foundation
The Marcia & Kent Velde 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $90,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $55,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $6,500 |
| ST MARCUS LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FORMATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| DIVINE SAVIOR HOLY ANGEL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ACTS HOUSING | $2,500 |
| BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER | $2,500 |
| ST ROBERT SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $2,500 |
| NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| ST ROBERT CHURCH | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +301%
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +92%- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- DBDAVID B WEBBER FSB SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2021 · $5k
- LPLAKE PARK FRIENDS LTDone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -16%
- SASCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTERone grant, 2020 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
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 partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
Making the arts accessible to all
WMNC will continue constructing the new Milwaukee Public Museum facility to completion and will then continue as the owner and operator of the new museum.
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…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
Milwaukee ballet transforms lives and connects communities through inspiring performance, community engagement, education and training.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Rooted in our catholic tradition and commitment to christian love and community, milwaukee catholic home, inc. (mch) provides continuing care services for older adults.
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
To create a montessori environment where the child's early experiences with learning will help him or her to become a self-confident, competent, cooperative adult.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO BRIGHTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARYS CHOICE RVA ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE PARK FRIENDS LTD ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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 · Baird Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Barbara and John Trimble Family Foundation Inc · Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Marcia & Kent Velde Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marcia & Kent Velde Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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