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Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee Inc

The mission of the women's fund of greater milwaukee is to activate philanthropy to advance equity for women.

$223k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$165kHuman Services$127kCrime & Legal$108kArts & Culture$99kEducation$95kReligion$65kEmployment$60kYouth Development$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $190,568 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $222,618 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,050 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE FILM INC$50,000
SHE SHOULD RUN$25,000
MILWAUKEE COUNTY SERVICE CORPS INC$20,000
CORE EL CENTRO$15,000
CONVERGENCE RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC$10,000
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY$10,000
INDEPENDENCEFIRST$10,000
LA CAUSA FOUNDATION INC$8,000
SIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC$8,000
HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC$8,000
WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC$5,568
ADVOCATE AURORA$5,500
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MILWAUKEE$5,500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHE SHOULD RUN: $25k → 14%WOMEN'S FUND OF THE BLUE RIDGE INC: $6k → 21%NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 17%SHERMAN PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $8k → 17%MAHOGANY CARES FOUNDATION: $8k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$566k · 14 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$566k
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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
HealthHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CATHEDRAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +95%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $57k · revenue +26%
  • LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • MW
    MUSLIM WOMEN'S COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +445%
  • NL
    NOTHING LESS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • Revitalize Milwaukee Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +84%

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
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
2
The Milwaukee Women's Center Inc

The mission of the milwaukee women's center, inc. is to provide innovative, culturally competent holistic care that will empower men, women, and children to live safe, independent, and healthy lives.

Human Services
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
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
5
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation

Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…

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6
Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…

Environment
7
Tempo Milwaukee Inc

The purpose of tempo is to bring together influential women from diverse fields and backgrounds to create a network and shared experience that serves members in achieving their professional goals and furthers positions of leadership for…

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8
One Wisconsin Now Inc

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

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9
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
10
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
11
Womens Support Centers of Milwaukee Inc

To provide support, counsel and education to women, men and families in life issues, particularly in regards to abortion and contraceptives

Human Services
12
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mahogany Cares 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.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr11%18%5–10yr17%28%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr21%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr11%12%5–10yr17%23%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr21%25%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
12%
710/5,745

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.

05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOAN ANTIDA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherST JOAN ANTIDA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC — $45,000 · Other9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN…BENEDICT CENTER INC — $42,500 · OtherBENEDICT CENTER INCWISCONSIN WOMEN'S NETWORK — $20,000 · OtherWISCONSIN WOMEN'S NETWORKNOTHING LESS INC — $15,000 · OtherCONVERGENCE RESOURCE CENTER — $12,500 · OtherDr James Cameron Legacy Foundation Inc — $12,500 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $25,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INCRevitalize Milwaukee Inc — $14,000 · OtherCUPED CORPORATION — $12,500 · OtherMILWAUKEE COMMUNITY SERVICE CORPS INC — $20,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE COMMUNITY SERVICE CORPS INC+9 more — $77,000 · Other+9 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $56,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD O…HIR WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC — $43,500 · HealthHIR WELLNESS INSTITU…Core El Centro Incorporated — $30,000 · HealthCore El Centro Incor…FEMHEALTH USA INC — $11,849 · HealthFEMHEALTH USA INCINDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthINDEPENDENCE FIRST F…Center for Leadership of Afrikan Women's Wellness — $10,000 · HealthCenter for Leadershi…+1 more — $5,500 · HealthCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $65,000 · ReligionCATHEDRAL CEN…LASSID MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 · ReligionLASSID MINIST…MUSLIM WOMEN'S COALITION INC — $15,000 · ReligionMUSLIM WOMEN'…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $48,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD …SHE SHOULD RUN — $25,000 · Human ServicesSHE SHOULD RU…Sherman Phoenix Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesSherman Phoen…NEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEU-LIFE COMM…Mahogany CARES Foundation INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesMahogany CARE…Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc — $5,568 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE…WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN…RADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO MIL…LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC — $55,000 · Crime & LegalMILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalALVERNO COLLEGE — $40,000 · EducationEX FABULA INC — $6,000 · Education
Other$341,000Health$167,349Religion$110,000Human Services$106,568Arts & Culture$80,000Crime & Legal$65,000Education$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $65,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $56,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC — $55,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $48,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST JOAN ANTIDA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 17% of budget9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBENEDICT CENTER INC — $42,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCore El Centro Incorporated — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLASSID MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSHE SHOULD RUN — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S NETWORK — $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMILWAUKEE COMMUNITY SERVICE CORPS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMUSLIM WOMEN'S COALITION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetRevitalize Milwaukee Inc — $14,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCUPED CORPORATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEMHEALTH USA INC — $11,849 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOJOURNER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSherman Phoenix Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEU-LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINDEPENDENCE FIRST FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Leadership of Afrikan Women's Wellness — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMahogany CARES Foundation INC — $8,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ROCK MILWAUKEE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetEX FABULA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWomens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc — $5,568 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MILWAUKEE CO SUB LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF WISCONSIN — $5,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…Youth Foundation IncWeiss Family Foundati…Baird Foundation IncBrewers Community Fou…The Ros FoundationArchdiocese of Milwau…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI56.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community 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 Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report 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

    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.

    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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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