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The Middleton Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$111k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$121kPhilanthropy$102kRecreation & Sports$62kHuman Services$35kYouth Development$24kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$11kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $111k
$3,353
Median grant
5
States reached
$688k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON$111,181
EVERY 1 VOICE MATTERS$9,770
XCEL SERVICES$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MILWAUKEE$4,950
DONORS CHOOSE$3,464
COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC$3,353
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,263
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$2,000
SOJOURNER HOUSE$1,800
HEART WORK INSTITUTE$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PLEDGES INC: $5k → 10%ST MEL SCHOOL: $1k → 12%OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%DONORS CHOOSE: $3k → 17%ELITE JAYS BASKETBALL: $3k → 8%CARLOS DUNLAP FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%St James Santee Elementary-Middle: $5k → 12%XCEL SPORTS TRAINING FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 10%LaFollette Elementary: $6k → 17%DREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 4%XCEL SERVICES: $15k → 22%PROJECT BACKBOARD: $40k → 10%OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GREATER HOWARD CHAPEL AME CHURCH: $5k → 12%MILWAUKEE TRANSPORT SERVICES INC: $8k → 17%XCEL SERVICES: $5k → 22%St James Santee Elementary-Middle: $3k → 12%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MILWAUKEE: $5k → 17%CITADEL FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN MILWA: $2k → 17%CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON: $111k → 12%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $2k → 17%EVERY 1 VOICE MATTERS: $10k → 12%SOJOURNER HOUSE: $2k → 17%SEABOARD TRADERS: $2k → 12%HEART WORK INSTITUTE: $2k → 17%BURKE HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 12%HUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $11k → 17%COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES: $5k → 17%COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $5k → 17%COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $3k → 17%GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$50k · 4 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$50k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • XS
    XCEL SERVICES
    2× · 2021–2024 · $20k
  • COALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +1%
  • OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue -100%

Funded once

  • PB
    PROJECT BACKBOARD
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -15%
  • XS
    XCEL SPORTS TRAINING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Onegoal

Onegoal (the organization") is a nonprofit organization incorporated on june 13, 2003 to provide underserved students with the resources, support, and network to earn a postsecondary degree.

Youth Development
2
One for One Chicago

One for one chicago provides paid work-based learning, mentorship, and career readiness support for young people ages 1524 in chicago communities with high rates of unemployment and limited access to early work experience.

Youth Development
3
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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4
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
5
Techforce Foundation

To champion all students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians.

Philanthropy
6
Think Big for Kids Inc

Think big for kids is breaking the cycle of poverty by providing middle and high school students with career opportunities, mentorship, and job readiness training to excel in today's workforce.

Youth Development
7
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.

Education
8
Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc

Improve the quality of life for youth and families in wisconsin focusing on youth education, health, wellness and community betterment

Human Services
9
Goodwill Industries of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…

Human Services
10
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
11
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
12
Mentor Greater Milwaukee Inc

Increase mentoring relationships by building the capacity of existing mentoring organizations matching a caring adult with children in need through safe, effective mentoring programs throughout greater milwaukee.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coalition for Children Youth & Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Backboard. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON: $111,181 · OtherCITY OF NORTH CHARLESTONXCEL SERVICES: $20,000 · OtherXCEL SERVICESCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $12,853 · OtherCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INCHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $11,000 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCMILWAUKEE TRANSPORT SERVICES INC: $7,737 · OtherSt James Santee Elementary-Middle: $7,550 · Other+11 more: $35,556 · Other+11 moreGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION I…OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATIONPROJECT BACKBOARD: $39,550 · Recreation & SportsPROJECT BACKBOA…XCEL SPORTS TRAINING FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsXCEL SPORTS TRA…Every 1 Voice Matters Inc: $9,770 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG: $3,464 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $1,200 · EducationCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $13,926 · HealthCarlos Dunlap Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Crime & LegalDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$205,877Philanthropy$110,000Recreation & Sports$54,550Education$14,434Health$13,926Crime & Legal$5,000Youth Development$2,500Arts & Culture$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT BACKBOARD: $39,550 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetXCEL SPORTS TRAINING FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $13,926 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $12,853 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvery 1 Voice Matters Inc: $9,770 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetPLEDGES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarlos Dunlap Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $3,464 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Middleton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Middleton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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