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William and Sandra Haack Family Foundation Inc

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.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MEducation$380kCommunity Improvement$40kReligion$33kRecreation & Sports$15kHealth$2kOther$52k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$125,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE: $3k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (GEORGETOWN SCHOLARS PROGRAM): $4k → 14%MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE: $3k → 16%MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE: $3k → 16%MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $50k → 17%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $50k → 17%ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $125k → 17%ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $125k → 17%ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $125k → 17%MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 17%MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $300k → 17%MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $200k → 17%MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100k → 17%BRIGHTSTAR WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%BRIGHTSTAR WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%PARTNERS ADVANCING VALUES IN EDUCAT: $5k → 17%SCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC: $20k → 17%ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $10k → 17%ST MARCUS SCHOOL (ST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC): $8k → 17%ST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 17%ST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 17%ST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%ST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$1.6M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+383%

Still filing today

86%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

  • ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $375k · revenue +190%
  • MA
    MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +34%
  • SM
    ST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • ST
    SCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • MR
    MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SM
    ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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
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
2
University of Wisconsin Foundation

To promote the welfare of and advance the objectives of the university of wisconsin-madison by encouraging the interest, engagement, and financial support of alumni, donors, and friends in the life of the university and with each other.

Education
3
Marian University Inc

Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…

Education
4
University School of Milwaukee Endowment Fund Inc

To support the university school of milwaukee in the fulfillment of its educational purposes.

Education
5
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
6
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
7
Milwaukee School of Engineering

Milwaukee school of engineering (msoe) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level in the disciplines of engineering business, mathematics, and nursing. (see schedule o)…

Education
8
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.

9
Providence St Mel School

Providence st. mel school is an independent, private school whose mission is to provide a high-quality, college preparatory education to students from preschool through grade 12. the school primarily targets students on chicago's west side.

10
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
11
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Marcus Foundation 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INCST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $375,000 · EducationST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY A…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationSCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC — $20,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION — $10,000 · OtherST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE — $7,500 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (GEORGETOWN SCHOLARS PROGRAM) — $4,000 · OtherBRIGHTSTAR WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 · ReligionNorthwestern University — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$1,100,000Education$380,000Other$51,500Community Improvement$40,000Religion$32,500Recreation & Sports$15,000Health$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,000,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $375,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHTSTAR WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetST MARCUS FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetSCHOOLS THAT CAN MILWAUKEE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Arzbaecher Family Foundation · Husco Foundation · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 William and Sandra Haack Family Foundation Inc 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to William and Sandra Haack Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to William and Sandra Haack Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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