United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc

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United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc

Q: How much did United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc grant in FY2025?

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc reported 639 itemized grants totaling $42,693,372, out of $44,246,987 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Q: Where is United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc based?

United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc is based in WI.

We unite people to create positive lasting change in our community.

$44M

Granted FY2025still arriving

639

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.0M

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$78MHealth$59MEducation$55MPhilanthropy$31MYouth Development$28MCrime & Legal$16MHousing & Shelter$11MArts & Culture$6.7MInternational$5.3MOther$104M

02FY2025 · 639 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 639 grants below total $42,693,372 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $44,246,987 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,553,615 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k104 grants · $743k
$10k–50k293 grants · $7.2M
$50k–250k220 grants · $21M
$250k+22 grants · $13M

$33,771

Median grant

States reached

$51M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - FOUNDATION	$2,001,097
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE	$1,131,891
CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN	$1,090,143
MILWAUKEE HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP	$926,934
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE	$791,824
IMPACT INC	$703,220
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY	$686,854
HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC	$585,165
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION	$572,289
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE	$480,443
AMERICAN RED CROSS IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN	$463,337
CURATIVE CARE NETWORK INC	$462,728
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY	$454,480
COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC	$390,500
DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY	$378,240

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $60.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$376M · 563 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

563 repeat relationships — 363 still active in FY2025, 200 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

563

177

Total granted

$376M

$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+10%

Still filing today

86%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $817k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +21%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +39%
IMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +22% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

Journey 21 Inc
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -62%
C2
CHECOTA 2 FOR 1 MATCH SCHOLARSHIP
one grant, 2023 · $505k
KK
KYLES KORNER INC
one grant, 2018 · $370k · revenue -78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy

Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy

Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services

United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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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

Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment

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

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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Community Care Health Plan Inc

Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.

Health

One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

—

Goodwill Manufacturing Inc

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

Employment

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Start Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%10/801

the rest of the field

3,016/35,725

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.

04the grantee network

705 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. 705 of the 804 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

152

Early backer (in before they grew)

675/705

Grantees still filing

431/705

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$109,119,166Human Services$74,406,853Health$56,479,702Education$51,846,346Youth Development$26,356,719Philanthropy$23,373,380Crime & Legal$14,777,757

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI235.3× affinity269 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc

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 United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

90report 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

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines