· Private foundation
William Stark Jones Foundation Katherine W Lambert Co-Trustee
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of WILLIAM STARK JONES FOUNDATION KATHERINE W LAMBERT CO-TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k52 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EARLY MUSIC NOW | $15,000 |
| PLYMOUTH HARBOR FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CTR | $12,000 |
| NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| HIGHLAND BEACH POLICE AND FIRE | $10,000 |
| ARIZONA AXEMEN MOTORCYCLE CLUB | $10,000 |
| DIABETES COALITION OF PALM BEACH | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE SEEING EYE INC | $10,000 |
| WEST BEND SUNRISE ROTARY FND | $8,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE | $7,500 |
| JACKSON HOLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| BALANCE INC | $5,000 |
| HEAR WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +72%
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +65%- ICInterfaith Committee for Social Services5× · 2019–2023 · $51k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISONone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -27%
- SCST CLEMENT'S CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SAST ANN CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
Making the arts accessible to all
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
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…
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.
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.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
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…
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Axemen Motorcycle Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
81 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 151 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Early Music Now Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Committee for Social Services ↗
- Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds TEMPERANCE TRAINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds HAINES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BAY VIEW NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INCORPORATED DBA MY CHOICE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PILGRIM PLACE ↗
- Who funds ERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BAY VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Gardner Foundation · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Direct Supply 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 William Stark Jones Foundation Katherine W Lambert Co-Trustee 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Temperance Training Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Teen Court of Sarasota Inc — 0% of income from government
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.