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Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$78k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
20 to 58
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$78k30%
FY202420$85k10%
FY202346$95k28%
FY202254$101k31%
FY202156$94k34%
FY202058$93kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$164kHealth$61kFood & Nutrition$57kHuman Services$55kHousing & Shelter$39kReligion$34kYouth Development$21kInternational$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lutheran High School Association of Greater Milwaukee$61,0006n/a
Marquette University$27,50060%
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$21,1006n/a
Tosa Community Food Pantry Inc$20,00067%
Hunger Task Force Inc$17,00060%
St Coletta of Wisconsin Inc$16,00060%
The Community Warehouse Inc$15,40060%
Tosa Cares Inc$15,00053%
Herrington-McBride Alumni Association and Foundation Inc$14,0006n/a
Kathy's House Inc$14,00050%
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All grantees of Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lutheran High School Association of Greater Milwaukee$61,0006n/a
Marquette University$27,50060%
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$21,1006n/a
Tosa Community Food Pantry Inc$20,00067%
Hunger Task Force Inc$17,00060%
St Coletta of Wisconsin Inc$16,00060%
The Community Warehouse Inc$15,40060%
Tosa Cares Inc$15,00053%
Herrington-McBride Alumni Association and Foundation Inc$14,0006n/a
Kathy's House Inc$14,00050%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$11,00050%
The 22Q Family Foundation Inc$8,00042%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$8,00060%
Lutheran Manor Foundation Inc$8,00040%
Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc$8,00040%
Our Redeemer Lutheran Church$8,0004n/a
The Boys & Girls Club of Washington County Inc$7,00040%
Ethnos360 Inc$6,0003n/a
Hope Center Inc$6,00020%
Wauwatosa Rotary Foundation Inc$6,000614%
The Hope Center Inc$6,00020%
First Stage Milwaukee$6,00030%
Brookfield Christian School Inc$5,00030%
Waukesha County Community Dental Clinic Inc$5,00040%
Elmbrook Humane Society Inc$4,90040%
Lutheran Urban Mission Initiative Inc$4,5003n/a
The Lambs Farm Inc$4,00040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$4,00040%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$4,0002n/a
Wauwatosa Historical Society$4,00022%
National Park Foundation$4,00040%
Lutheran Home Foundation Inc$4,00020%
Dogs to Dog Tags Inc$3,00031%
Mercy Ships International$3,00030%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$3,00030%
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation$3,00030%
Next Door Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Like a Lion$3,00031%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$3,00020%
Arm Ministries$3,0001n/a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$2,50030%
American Heart Association Inc$2,50030%
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee$2,00010%
Disabled American Veterans$2,00010%
United Performing Arts Fund Inc$2,00010%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$2,00010%
Joy House Inc$2,00016%
First Immanuel Lutheran Church$2,0001n/a
Journeys Lutheran School Inc$2,0001n/a
Port Washington Fire and EMS Association Inc$2,0001n/a
New Berlin Lions Club Inc$2,0001n/a
Audio & Braille Literacy Enhancement Inc$2,00010%
Friends of Hoyt Park$2,0001n/a
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$1,50020%
Life Navigators Inc$1,50020%
Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inc$1,10010%
American Leprosy Missions Inc$1,00010%
Wisconsin 4-H Foundation Inc$1,00010%
University of Louisville Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Telling the Truth Inc$1,00020%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Compassion International Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Trinity Lutheran Church$1,0001n/a
Feeding America$1,00010%
Wisconsin Lions Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Camp LuWiSoMo Inc$1,0001n/a
Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc$1,00010%
Friends of Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission Inc$1,0001n/a
Badger Boys State Incorporated$8001n/a
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc$7501n/a
Riveredge Nature Center Inc$50010%
The John K Maciver Institute for Public Policy Inc$50010%
National Geographic Society$50010%
Congregational Home Inc$20010%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarquette University: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTosa Community Food Pantry Inc: $20,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetHunger Task Force Inc: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Coletta of Wisconsin Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Warehouse Inc: $15,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTosa Cares Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetKathy's House Inc: $14,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe 22Q Family Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Manor Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMilwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys & Girls Club of Washington County Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHope Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWauwatosa Rotary Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Stage Milwaukee: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrookfield Christian School Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWaukesha County Community Dental Clinic Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetElmbrook Humane Society Inc: $4,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lambs Farm Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWauwatosa Historical Society: $4,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Home Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDogs to Dog Tags Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMercy Ships International: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNext Door Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLike a Lion: $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers and Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Performing Arts Fund Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoy House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAudio & Braille Literacy Enhancement Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLife Navigators Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetImpact100 Greater Milwaukee Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Leprosy Missions Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin 4-H Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTelling the Truth Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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 IncWI40.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family 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.

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About Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation

How much does Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation give?
Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $77,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 58 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Health (11%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lutheran High School Association of Greater Milwaukee ($61k), Marquette University ($28k), Milwaukee Rescue Mission ($21k).
Does Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
Where is Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation based?
Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation is based in WI.

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 117 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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