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The Yabuki 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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$8.6MArts & Culture$5.8MPhilanthropy$1.3MEducation$666kHuman Services$567kCrime & Legal$333kPublic Safety & Disaster$318kFood & Nutrition$146kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$1,160,000
PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS$525,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$305,000
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL$200,000
THE GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION$200,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$132,500
UNITED WAY$130,000
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME$115,000
THORN$100,000
FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$100,000
THREE HOLY WOMEN CATHOLIC PARISH$100,000
MILWAUKEE FILM$60,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$50,200
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$35,000
DONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION$35,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $876k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THORN: $50k → 14%YMCA CAMP MINIKANI: $5k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $120k → 14%YMCA CAMP MINIKANI: $5k → 6%THORN: $100k → 14%THORN: $100k → 14%THORN: $50k → 14%SHARP LITERACY: $8k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $5k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $5k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $1k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $108k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $100k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $100k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $70k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $25k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $14k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
NY
WY
IA
OH
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 44 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
33

Total granted

$15M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+18%

Still filing today

68%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $870k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationInternationalOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $7.7M · revenue +28%
  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +89%
  • MA
    MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue +139%
  • GM
    GREATER MILWAUKEE COMM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • SCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +14%
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.

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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
2
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
3
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
4
Milwaukee World Festival Inc

The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…

Arts & Culture
5
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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6
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
7
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…

Arts & Culture
8
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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9
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

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)

Education
10
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…

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11
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
12
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Awake Ltd. 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

56 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. 56 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
44/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $7,733,969 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC+4 more: $256,000 · HealthMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $2,147,266 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $1,147,197 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INCMUSEUM ASSOCIATES INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES INCPROJECT HEALTHY MINDS: $525,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HEALTHY MINDSMILWAUKEE FILM INC: $492,034 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE FILM INCThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $380,000 · Arts & CultureThe National Film Preserve LtdMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $206,274 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $572,350 · Arts & Culture+9 moreUNITED WAY: $530,000 · OtherUNITED WAYSETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $210,000 · OtherSETON CATH…THREE HOLY WOMEN CATHOLIC PARISH: $110,000 · OtherTHREE HOLY…GREATER MILWAUKEE COMM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherGREATER MI…FEEDING AMERICA: $85,630 · Other+41 more: $594,022 · Other+41 moreSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $417,228 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $312,500 · Human ServicesTHORN: $300,000 · Human Services+3 more: $38,500 · Human ServicesGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $748,644 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyDONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $145,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas: $56,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $85,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $40,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10,000 · AnimalsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 · Animals
Health$7,989,969Arts & Culture$6,070,121Other$1,629,652Human Services$1,068,228Philanthropy$886,644Education$281,000Animals$141,000

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $7,733,969 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $2,147,266 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $1,147,197 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $748,644 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY MINDS: $525,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC: $492,034 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $417,228 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $380,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $312,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHORN: $300,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $206,274 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMESERVE-KUNHARDT FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $145,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $115,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $105,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $56,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC: $53,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetGLOBAL VOLUNTEERS: $41,974 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSCULPTURE MILWAUKEE INC: $36,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $30,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAWAKE LTD: $22,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCITY ON A HILL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREDgen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBENEDICT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Baird Foundation IncAnon Charitable TrustRalph Evinrude Founda…Brewers Community Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Marcus Corporation Fo…Rite-Hite Foundation …Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Cedar Street Charitab…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI40.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Marcus Corporation Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 85 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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