· Private foundation
The McArthur-Kuhns Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| LAUREL MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $2,000 |
| ST ANN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC | $600 |
| HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY | $600 |
| ACCESS LIVING OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $500 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC | $300 |
| PRO BONO NET INC | $300 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $300 |
| LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION | $200 |
| MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| WINTER PARK VOICE INC | $100 |
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 (FY22–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC2× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +13%
- ALAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago3× · 2019–2025 · $1k · revenue +115%
- WFWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -19%
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +18%
- RDROTARY DISTRICT 6250 FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $700 · revenue +137%
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of 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…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
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…
To perform and carry out charitable and education functions and purposes of the milwaukee bar association of milwaukee, wisconsin and to facilitate the advancement of jurisprudence and the promotion of administration of justice in the…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
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…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prairie Du Chien Historical Society 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 48 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 NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 6250 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MILWAUKEE AREA DOMESTIC ANIMAL CONTROL COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO NET INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Assurant Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 McArthur-Kuhns 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% 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.