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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.

$240k
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$325kArts & Culture$285kEducation$255kRecreation & Sports$133kReligion$125kEnvironment$124kHealth$96kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k52 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $112k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARLY MUSIC NOW$15,000
PLYMOUTH HARBOR FOUNDATION$13,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CTR$12,000
NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION$12,000
DIABETES COALITION OF PALM BEACH$10,000
ARIZONA AXEMEN MOTORCYCLE CLUB$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MILWAUKEE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HIGHLAND BEACH POLICE AND FIRE$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
ST MARTHA CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
SECOND HEART HOMES INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA AXEMEN MOTORCYCLE CLUB: $10k → 11%PILGRIM PLACE: $7k → 14%EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES INC: $2k → 14%BALANCE INC: $5k → 6%WISCONSIBS: $2k → 7%PILGRIM PLACE: $3k → 14%ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INC: $4k → 9%EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES INC: $2k → 14%THE SEEING EYE INC: $10k → 4%PILGRIM PLACE: $3k → 14%ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INC: $2k → 9%PILGRIM PLACE: $2k → 14%PILGRIM PLACE: $2k → 14%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SER: $22k → 11%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SER: $10k → 11%ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INC: $2k → 9%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SER: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF ABUSED FAMILIES: $6k → 6%ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INC: $2k → 9%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SER: $5k → 11%ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INC: $2k → 9%INTERFAITH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SER: $4k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $30k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INC: $2k → 9%THE GLADES INITIATIVE INC: $3k → 11%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $5k → 6%SAFE CHILDREN COALITION: $2k → 9%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $4k → 6%ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INC: $2k → 9%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $3k → 6%ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INC: $2k → 9%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $10k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $7k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $4k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $4k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $4k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

AK
NH
MT
IL
WI
MI
MA
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 109 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
36

Total granted

$1.7M
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+41%

Still filing today

52%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +72%
  • LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +65%
  • IC
    Interfaith Committee for Social Services
    5× · 2019–2023 · $51k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -27%
  • SC
    ST CLEMENT'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • OH
    Ohio High School Boys Volleyball Assoc
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -99%
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.

1
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
2
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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3
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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4
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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5
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
6
Portal Inc

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…

Employment
7
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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8
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
9
Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

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.

Employment
10
Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

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…

Health
11
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy
12
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 151 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/82
Grantees still filing
61/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Early Music Now Inc: $120,000 · OtherEarly Music Now IncIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+106 more: $1,007,500 · Other+106 moreInterfaith Committee for Social Services: $51,000 · Human ServicesInterfaith Commi…HEAR Wisconsin Inc: $43,000 · Human ServicesHEAR Wisconsin I…CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $30,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITI…KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesKETTLE MORAINE Y…BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBAY VIEW COMMUNI…ANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INCORPORATED DBA MY CHOICE PREGNANCY CENTER: $18,000 · Human ServicesANGELS AMONG US …PILGRIM PLACE: $17,000 · Human ServicesPILGRIM PLACESENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITIES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesArizona Axemen Motorcycle Club Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+9 more: $34,000 · Human Services+9 moreNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $79,500 · Recreation & SportsTEMPERANCE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsOhio High School Boys Volleyball Assoc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc: $21,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO MILWAUKEE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureSKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP: $8,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureSCHAUER ARTS & ACTIVITIES CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $90,000 · EnvironmentCEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · EnvironmentLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalPLYMOUTH HARBOR INC: $32,000 · HealthWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthSPECIAL FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthGREAT LAKES ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · Health
Other$1,197,500Human Services$275,000Recreation & Sports$129,500Arts & Culture$110,500Environment$103,500Crime & Legal$60,000Health$44,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEarly Music Now Inc: $120,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $79,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetInterfaith Committee for Social Services: $51,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $43,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTEMPERANCE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HARBOR INC: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAINES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $29,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetBAY VIEW NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $28,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HEART HOMES INC: $21,700 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $21,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc: $21,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetKETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $21,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $20,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetANGELS AMONG US IN FLORIDA INCORPORATED DBA MY CHOICE PREGNANCY CENTER: $18,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $17,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPILGRIM PLACE: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBAY VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $14,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetDR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC INC: $14,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCEDAR LAKES CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC: $13,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIDOSNOW INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetROGERS INHEALTH INC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITIES INC: $11,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBRUNSWICK ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetArizona Axemen Motorcycle Club Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetOhio High School Boys Volleyball Assoc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMON GROUND INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YMCA 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 ↗

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 IncWI61.4× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William Stark Jones Foundation Katherine W Lambert Co-Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Stark Jones Foundation Katherine W Lambert Co-Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 151 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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