How much does Usinger Foundation Inc give?

Usinger Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Usinger Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Human Services (14%).

Who are Usinger Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc ($11k), Hunger Task Force Inc ($10k), Milwaukee Public Museum Inc ($8k).

Does Usinger Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Usinger Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Usinger Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation.

Where is Usinger Foundation Inc based?

Usinger Foundation Inc is based in WI.

Usinger Foundation Inc

Usinger Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Usinger Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$30kFood & Nutrition$30kHuman Services$23kHealth$18kHousing & Shelter$15kAnimals$12kEducation$12kYouth Development$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$70k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE ALS ASSOCIATION - UECKER FUND	$5,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE OF MILWAUKEE	$1,500
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WI	$1,500
SCHLITZ AUDUBON CENTER	$1,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY	$1,000
SOJOURNER FOUNDATION	$1,000
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE	$1,000
NIMAN RANCH NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATION	$1,000
CAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICES	$1,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER	$1,000
MAKE A WISH	$750
WISCONSIN LIVESTOCK & MEAT COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP FUND	$750
ST ANN CENTER	$750
KATHY'S HOUSE	$750
REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH	$500

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$152k · 38 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$152k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

Still filing today

71%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +56%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +24%
SOJOURNER FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +144%

Funded once

LU
LAKELAND UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -12%
AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2021 · $1k
CURATIVE CARE NETWORK INC
one grant, 2024 · $750 · revenue 0%

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.

Medical Society of Milwaukee Foundation Inc

Health

Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

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

Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter

Milwaukee Excellence Inc

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.

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Milwaukee Public Museum Endowment Fund

Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.

—

The Uwm Foundation Inc

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,…

Education

Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth Inc

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…

Human Services

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…

—

The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

18/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$85,150Arts & Culture$26,250Human Services$14,750Philanthropy$11,250Food & Nutrition$10,500Housing & Shelter$8,750Health$7,850

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

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 Foundation IncWI44.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home