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Waukesha County Community Foundation

Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
130
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$267k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$8.0MHealth$6.9MArts & Culture$5.0MHuman Services$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MYouth Development$847kOther$0
02FY2024 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 130 grants below total $3,024,576 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,166,367 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,141,791 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $371k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $267k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MKE AIR AND WATER SHOW INC$266,500
FRIENDS OF OCONOMOWOC PARKS AND TRAILS INC$200,000
POLISH HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC$177,384
COMMUNITY SMILES DENTAL$174,800
WAYLAND ACADEMY$150,000
WOMEN AND GIRLS FUND OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC$107,400
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$91,500
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$85,000
SHARP LITERACY INC$60,750
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$51,351
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY UPPER PLAINS REGION$50,000
WISCONSIN FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$46,300
MOUNT CALVARY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL$44,400
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC$39,500
DONALD J DRIVER FOUNDATION INC$38,250
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $19k → 6%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOX VALLEY: $13k → 7%FOND DU LAC YMCA: $30k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $11k → 5%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILW: $128k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILW: $110k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILW: $110k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $71k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILW: $50k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $25k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $15k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILW: $15k → 17%THE SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE: $13k → 17%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $50k → 5%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $36k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $35k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $32k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $25k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $25k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $23k → 5%FAMILY SERVICE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY: $20k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $19k → 5%FAMILY SERVICE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY: $19k → 5%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $18k → 5%SHARP LITERACY INC: $103k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $64k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $63k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $61k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $48k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $43k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $18k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $11k → 17%MAKE A DIFFERENCE WISCONSIN: $28k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $26k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $26k → 17%CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL OF WAUKESHA COUNTY: $15k → 5%CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL: $15k → 5%JOURNEY HOUSE: $22k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $12k → 17%JOURNEY HOUSE: $12k → 17%TOSA CARES INC: $20k → 17%SecureFutures: $13k → 17%SECUREFUTURES: $10k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $16k → 5%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $18k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $12k → 17%ELMBROOK SENIOR TAXI INC: $13k → 5%ELMBROOK SENIOR TAXI INC: $12k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ID
IL
WI
MI
MA
IA
OH
PA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TX
FL

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 178 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

178 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

178
103

Total granted

$25M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+12%

Still filing today

76%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MA
    MKE Air & Water Show Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $852k · revenue ×55 · 40% of their budget
  • WA
    WAYLAND ACADEMY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $675k · revenue +28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $629k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2.2M
  • MS
    MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WAUKESHA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $611k · revenue +103% · 28% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MAIN STREETS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -80%

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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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4
One Wisconsin Now Inc

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

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5
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
6
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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7
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

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

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8
Wispact Inc

We enhance the well-being of people of all ages with disabilities across wisconsin through the management of special needs trusts by promoting more choice and opportunities.

Human Services
9
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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10
Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc

Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.

Education
11
Healthy Wisconsin Alliance Inc

Healthy wisconsin alliance, inc. was created to promote the social welfare of the citizens of wisconsin including developing, defining, and encouraging distribution of information about wisconsin's health care climate and the importance of…

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12
Wisconsin Public Health Association Inc

Our mission is to build collective action to address root-causes and advance public health policy & practice to achieve a vision for a healthier, safer, and more equitable wisconsin.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%9%5–10yr17%18%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr20%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%24%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr18%14%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr20%36%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/283
the rest of the field
12%
938/8,021

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

228 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 228 of the 314 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
219/228
Grantees still filing
148/228
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $2,234,520 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMID CITY CORPORATION — $586,578 · OtherMKE Air & Water Show Inc — $851,500 · OtherMKE Air & Water Show Inc+113 more — $8,480,626 · Other+113 moreJourney 21 Inc — $4,721,000 · Housing & ShelterJourney 21 Inc+8 more — $282,697 · Housing & Shelter+8 moreWAUKESIA CIVIC THEATRE INC — $3,500,017 · Arts & CultureWAUKESIA CIVIC T…POLISH HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC — $427,384 · Arts & CulturePOLISH HERITAGE …+11 more — $598,127 · Arts & Culture+11 moreWAYLAND ACADEMY — $675,000 · EducationWAYLAND ACAD…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $628,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WAUKESHA INC — $611,180 · EducationMONTESSORI S…Marquette University — $254,495 · EducationMarquette Un…LA CAUSA INC — $205,000 · EducationLA CAUSA INCST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $176,573 · EducationARROWHEAD SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $152,752 · EducationCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $125,772 · Education+10 more — $499,349 · Education+10 moreWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,419,655 · PhilanthropyWCTC FOUNDATION INC — $215,258 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $185,750 · PhilanthropyWOMEN AND GIRLS FUND OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $159,500 · PhilanthropyDONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC — $144,350 · Philanthropy+5 more — $305,375 · PhilanthropyPROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $422,322 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $342,106 · HealthWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $331,810 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $135,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $110,140 · HealthLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC — $103,408 · HealthLIFESTRIDERS INC — $67,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $67,500 · Health+9 more — $327,614 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $523,753 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC — $410,880 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $246,032 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $118,440 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $91,912 · Human ServicesWAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC — $78,020 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC — $63,212 · Human Services+10 more — $272,314 · Human Services
Other$12,153,224Housing & Shelter$5,003,697Arts & Culture$4,525,528Education$3,328,921Philanthropy$2,429,888Health$1,907,400Human Services$1,804,563

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJourney 21 Inc — $4,721,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetWAUKESIA CIVIC THEATRE INC — $3,500,017 over 8y, 47% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,419,655 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetMKE Air & Water Show Inc — $851,500 over 6y, 40% of budgetWAYLAND ACADEMY — $675,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $628,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WAUKESHA INC — $611,180 over 1y, 28% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $523,753 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetPOLISH HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC — $427,384 over 2y, 33% of budgetPROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $422,322 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC — $410,880 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetWAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC — $356,646 over 6y, 44% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $342,106 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $331,810 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetLAD LAKE INC — $296,982 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $278,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMENOMONEE FALLS SCHOLARSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL — $263,000 over 2y, 86% of budgetLA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC — $257,647 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMarquette University — $254,495 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $246,032 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetWCTC FOUNDATION INC — $215,258 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF OCONOMOWOC PARKS & TRAILS INC — $206,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetLA CAUSA INC — $205,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $185,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $176,573 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC — $170,549 over 8y, 21% of budgetHOOVES OF MY HEART EQUINE RESCUE LTD — $167,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetWOMEN AND GIRLS FUND OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $159,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetFOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $155,772 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetARROWHEAD SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $152,752 over 6y, 18% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $152,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $144,583 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetDONALD DRIVER FOUNDATION INC — $144,350 over 4y, 25% of budgetWISCONSIN HERO OUTDOORS INC — $135,892 over 6y, 26% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $135,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $125,772 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP — $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE INC — $118,440 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $115,700 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $110,140 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC — $103,408 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNAMI SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC — $103,397 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCRISTO REY JESUIT CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC — $98,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWILDLIFE IN NEED CENTER LTD — $98,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc — $95,829 over 8y, 10% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $91,912 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $91,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $89,226 over 8y, 0.1% of budget
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 Journey 21 Inc ↗
  • Who funds WAUKESIA CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MKE Air & Water Show Inc ↗
  • Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WAUKESHA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds POLISH HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds WAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds LAD LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MENOMONEE FALLS SCHOLARSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WCTC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF OCONOMOWOC PARKS & TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CAUSA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MAIN STREETS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN VETERANS NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOVES OF MY HEART EQUINE RESCUE LTD ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN AND GIRLS FUND OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARROWHEAD SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Youth Foundation IncAnon Charitable TrustHarley-Davidson Found…Ralph Evinrude Founda…STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Generac Foundation IncJoseph and Vera Zilbe…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI140.1× affinity104 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Generac Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family 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 Waukesha County Community Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
59report 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 314 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$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