· Private foundation
Usinger Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ALS ASSOCIATION - UECKER FUND | $5,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE OF MILWAUKEE | $1,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WI | $1,500 |
| CAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE | $1,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER | $1,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| NIMAN RANCH NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOJOURNER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN LIVESTOCK & MEAT COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $750 |
| ST ANN CENTER | $750 |
| KATHY'S HOUSE | $750 |
| MAKE A WISH | $750 |
| WISCONSIN FFA FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +56%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +24%
SOJOURNER FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2021 · $1k
- LULAKELAND UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -12%
CURATIVE CARE NETWORK INCone grant, 2024 · $750 · revenue 0%
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.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
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…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To promote fair housing throughout the state of wisconsin by combating illegal housing discrimination and by creating and maintaining racially and economically integrated housing patterns.
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.
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,…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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 52 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 FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEAT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MELS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PABST MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds German Immersion Foundation ↗
- Who funds NIMAN RANCH NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI
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 Usinger 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.
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.