· Private foundation
Weiss Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $30,000 |
| United Community Center | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Milwaukee Parks Foundation | $10,000 |
| Milwaukee Public Museum | $10,000 |
| Milwaukee Public Library Foundation | $10,000 |
| ACLU Foundation | $10,000 |
| St Marcus Schools | $7,500 |
| Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity | $5,000 |
| Urban Ecology Center | $5,000 |
| Milwaukee Women's Center | $5,000 |
| Malaika Early Learning Center | $5,000 |
| Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition | $5,000 |
| Hope House of Milwaukee | $5,000 |
| Arts Large | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 11 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +111%
- PCPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +18%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +7%
Funded once
Pearls for Teen Girls Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +30%- MBMKE Bar AssociationMKE Justice Centone grant, 2024 · $10k
MILWAUKEE FILM INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
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.
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.
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
The mission of employ milwaukee, inc. is to build a strong workforce development system by planning, coordinating, collaborating and monitoring workforce initiatives with businesses, partners and community stakeholders at the local,…
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…
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…
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.
The milwaukee community crossroads (mcc) cultivates a vibrant milwaukee community by helping individuals, families and neighborhoods access basic needs, overcome barriers and connect to opportunities.
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.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.
United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee's mission is to strengthen city neighborhoods by combining and enhancing the assets of our partner agencies to improve the quality of life for urban families.
All-in milwaukee is a college completion program that provides financial aid, advising, program and career support to high potential, limited-income, diverse milwaukee students to complete college, build meaningful careers and transform…
How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 99 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds LA CAUSA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL POR DERECHOS HUMANOS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMPACT ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds NourishMKE Inc ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NIA IMANI FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Weiss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weiss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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