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Thomas and Nancy Florsheim Family Foundation at a glance

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Thomas and Nancy Florsheim Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$555k
Granted FY2019
61
Grants FY2019
17
States reached
$202k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$416kEducation$270kEnvironment$260kInternational$134kArts & Culture$29kHealth$24kAnimals$23kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2019 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k49 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $177k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $316k
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$202,054
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE$63,744
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION$50,000
MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL$30,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$30,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$25,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$21,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$21,000
WISCONSIN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$15,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)$15,000
MIAD MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ARTS & DESIGN$10,000
EARTHJUSTICE$10,000
MILWAUKEE EXCELLENCE CHARTER SCHOOL$7,000
NUCLEAR INFORMATION & RESOURCES SERVICE$5,000
CARMEN SCHOOLS OF TECHNOLOGY$5,000
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 (FY17–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $8k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $7k → 14%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

ME
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
AL
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$924k · 62 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2019, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
13

Total granted

$924k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+29%

Still filing today

69%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EnvironmentEducationInternationalAnimalsHealthCivil RightsOther
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

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $110k · revenue +353%
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +79%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE - 2018 SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • UF
    UMM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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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World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
11
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
12
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 83 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)
56/56
Grantees still filing
46/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $202,054 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $161,914 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUK…GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP SCHOOLWISCONSIN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $35,000 · OtherWISCONSIN LEAGUE OF CONSERVAT…MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $22,500 · OtherMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & …Milwaukee Excellence Inc: $19,000 · OtherMilwaukee Excellence IncUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE - 2018 SCHOLARSHIP: $18,687 · OtherUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKE…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · OtherCARMEN SCHOOLS OF TECHNOLOGY: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $15,000 · Other+38 more: $89,150 · Other+38 moreLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $110,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVA…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES …EARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENuclear Information and Resource Service: $15,000 · EnvironmentNuclear Informatio…+4 more: $9,700 · EnvironmentInternational Rescue Committee INC: $62,000 · InternationalInternation…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $55,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…+6 more: $7,500 · International+6 moreCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $75,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POS…THE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOU…+5 more: $6,800 · Education+5 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $21,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,000 · HealthThe Fistula Foundation: $1,500 · HealthWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,200 · AnimalsESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,500 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $4,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $3,000 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $1,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · Animals+1 more: $200 · Animals
Philanthropy$414,968Other$319,337Environment$199,700International$124,500Education$121,800Health$29,500Animals$20,400

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $202,054 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $161,914 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $62,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNuclear Information and Resource Service: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SHELTERS & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ALAMOS STUDY GROUP: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWabash College: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAVE EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AUTO SAFETY INC: $400 over 2y, 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.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Thomas and Nancy Florsheim Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas and Nancy Florsheim Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Thomas and Nancy Florsheim Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 83 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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