How much does Weyco Group Charitable Trust give?

Weyco Group Charitable Trust reported 38 grants totaling $307,327 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Weyco Group Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (17%), Youth Development (8%).

Who are Weyco Group Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Performing Arts Fund Inc ($123k), Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc ($120k), Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc ($66k).

Does Weyco Group Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Weyco Group Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Weyco Group Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc.

Where is Weyco Group Charitable Trust based?

Weyco Group Charitable Trust is based in WI.

Weyco Group Charitable Trust

Weyco Group Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Weyco Group Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$307k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$43k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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$376kEducation$249kYouth Development$123kInternational$80kHealth$79kFood & Nutrition$69kHuman Services$54kCommunity Improvement$44kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $108k
$10k–50k10 grants · $199k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$658k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$42,814
TWO TEN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION	$40,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND	$25,000
UWM FOUNDATION	$20,000
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESI	$15,300
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM	$14,333
MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOO	$12,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM	$10,000
GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION	$10,000
DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY	$10,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA MILWAUKEE	$8,800
COLLEGE POSSIBLE MILWAUKEE	$7,500
Individual grant recipient	$7,500
CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION	$6,000
FIRST STAGE CHILDREN'S THEATRE	$6,000

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, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 47 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

Still filing today

60%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & 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

MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +12%
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +56%
MA
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +27%

Funded once

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TWO TEN INTERNATIONAL FOOTWEAR FOUN
one grant, 2024 · $37k
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TWO TEN INERNATIONAL FOOTWEAR FOUND
one grant, 2023 · $36k
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TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -3%

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.

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 Association of Commerce

Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.

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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 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…

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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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The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education

Milwaukee Development Corporation

-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…

Community Improvement

Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

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…

Environment

Water Council Inc

To align the regional fresh water research community and water-related industries to establish the milwaukee 7 region as the global capital for fresh water research and education, through the advancement of scientific collaboration on…

Science & Tech

Employ Milwaukee Inc

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,…

Employment

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

Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee Inc

A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. 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

52 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. 52 of the 87 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)

50/52

Grantees still filing

30/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$922,816Arts & Culture$233,857Education$140,400Food & Nutrition$67,418Community Improvement$36,000Human Services$34,250Youth Development$31,500

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI42.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Gardner Foundation · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc

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 Weyco Group Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weyco Group Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

14report 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

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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