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Vilter Foundation Inc at a glance

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Vilter Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$158k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$319kAnimals$142kHuman Services$133kArts & Culture$109kReligion$96kEducation$81kFood & Nutrition$59kPublic Safety & Disaster$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Red Cross$8,000
Tunnel To Towers Foundation$6,000
Salvation Army$5,500
Zoological Society of Milwaukee County$5,250
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital$5,000
Bader Honor Flight$5,000
American Diabetes Association$4,000
Parkinsons Foundation$4,000
The Pettit Center - Schools on Ice$3,700
Wisconsin Humane Society$3,500
Faith Hope and Love$3,500
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$3,500
Racine Toys for Tots$3,500
Wounded Warior Project$3,500
Childrens Hospital Foundation$3,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warior Project: $4k → 14%The Women's Center: $4k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 5%The Womens Center: $3k → 5%The Women's Center: $2k → 5%The Women's Center: $2k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 5%The Women's Center: $2k → 5%The Women's Center: $2k → 5%The Women's Center: $1k → 5%St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care: $3k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $3k → 17%St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care: $2k → 17%St Ann Center for Intergenerational Care: $2k → 17%St Ann Center for Integrational Care: $1k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 17%Milwaukee Center For Independence: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 17%Milwaukee Center for Independence: $2k → 17%Milwaukee Center For Independence: $1k → 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
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
FL
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.
$1.1M · 83 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
16

Total granted

$1.1M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+14%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FH
    Faith Hope & Love Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +171%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +95%
  • MJ
    MILWAUKEE JAZZ FESTIVAL INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +323%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN PAUL II CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • ST
    ST THOMAS MOORE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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.

1
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
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
3
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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4
Burnett Medical Center Inc

The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…

Health
5
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
6
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health
7
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
8
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

—
9
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
10
Wisconsin Hospital Association Inc

The wisconsin hospital association, inc.'s (wha) mission is advocating for the ability of its members to provide high quality health care services to wisconsin communities.the association fulfills this mission through the following values:…

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11
Wisconsin Health Information Organization Inc

The wisconsin health information organization maintains a centralized health care data repository to provide data and information on the quality, safety, cost, and equity of health care to all health care stakeholders for improvement,…

Health
12
Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin Inc

Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.

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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 Wisconsin Big Cat Rescue Education Center 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

58 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. 58 of the 110 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
41/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Red Cross: $57,000 · OtherAmerican Red CrossSalvation Army: $32,000 · OtherST MATTHEW CONGREGATION: $28,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $23,500 · Other+66 more: $508,596 · Other+66 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $24,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOU…FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC: $17,500 · HealthFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN …AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $17,360 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATI…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $17,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCAmerican Diabetes Association: $17,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Assoc…Macular Degeneration Association: $14,500 · HealthMacular Degeneration As…VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 · HealthVERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH …CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC: $14,000 · HealthCENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND P…FOUNDATION FOR HEART SCIENCE LTD: $14,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR HEART SC…VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $13,000 · HealthVISION FORWARD ASSOCIAT…AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $13,000 · HealthAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERAC…BROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $13,000 · HealthBROADSCOPE DISABILITY S…PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $12,500 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $9,000 · HealthPROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,500 · Health+4 more: $11,500 · HealthZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $53,850 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL …WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $22,250 · AnimalsWISCONSIN H…RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $16,500 · AnimalsRACINE ZOOL…INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · AnimalsINTERNATION…Wisconsin Big Cat Rescue Education Center Inc: $5,500 · AnimalsMILWAUKEE JAZZ FESTIVAL INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureBADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePABST MANSION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $10,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesFaith Hope & Love Inc: $25,000 · Public BenefitFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $21,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$649,096Health$239,360Animals$113,600Arts & Culture$58,500Human Services$44,000Public Benefit$25,000Food & Nutrition$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $53,850 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFaith Hope & Love Inc: $25,000 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $24,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE JAZZ FESTIVAL INC: $22,500 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $22,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $21,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $19,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC: $17,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $17,360 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $16,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC: $16,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWCTC FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRACINE COUNTY PROJECT EMERGENCY INC: $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER INC: $14,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEART SCIENCE LTD: $14,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBROADSCOPE DISABILITY SERVICES INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $12,500 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Big Cat Rescue Education Center Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEX REYNOLDS TOYS FOR TOTS INC: $5,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC MILWAUKEE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
  • Who funds Faith Hope & Love Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE JAZZ FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds RACINE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WCTC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RACINE COUNTY PROJECT EMERGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PETTIT NATIONAL ICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Macular Degeneration Association ↗
  • Who funds VERSITI BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DEAF-BLIND PERSONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEART SCIENCE LTD ↗
  • Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗

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.

Evan & Marion Helfaer…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Baird Foundation IncFrancie Luke Silverma…Youth Foundation IncCharles D Ortgiesen F…Dorothy Inbusch Found…United Way of Greater…Gardner Foundation
Evan & Marion Helfaer FoundationWI44.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Baird Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Youth Foundation Inc · Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Gardner 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 Vilter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vilter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 110 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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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