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Youth Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
99
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Human Services$209kEducation$192kArts & Culture$180kHealth$95kHousing & Shelter$51kYouth Development$37kRecreation & Sports$26kReligion$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA CAUSA INC$3,800
HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY$3,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$3,000
SHARP LITERACY$2,881
MKE URBAN STABLES$2,500
THE SALVATION ARMY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY$2,500
FUTURE URBAN LEADERS FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN$2,500
CHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN$2,000
COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION$2,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE$2,000
SPINA BIFIDA WISCONSIN$2,000
MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION$2,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER$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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN: $2k → 5%CHOSEN INC: $2k → 5%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 10%ST JOSEPH ACADEMY: $1k → 17%CHOSEN INC: $1k → 5%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 10%CHOSEN INC: $1k → 5%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CHOSEN INC: $1k → 5%PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%ELEVATE INC: $1k → 6%THE YOUTH AND FAMILY PROJECT INC: $2k → 6%THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $3k → 5%THE YOUTH AND FAMILY PROJECT: $1k → 6%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 5%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 5%WOMAN'S CENTER INC: $1k → 5%CASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1k → 6%CASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER: $1k → 6%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 5%SHARP LITERACY: $3k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $2k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $2k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $2k → 17%RAISING THE BAR: $2k → 17%PEACE LEARNING CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE: $2k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION: $2k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $3k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $2k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN: $2k → 17%WALKER'S POINT YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER: $2k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $2k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE: $2k → 17%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $2k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $2k → 17%BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $2k → 17%ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CARE: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC: $2k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$728k · 140 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

140 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

140
144

Total granted

$728k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+17%

Still filing today

73%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +575%
  • MH
    MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +129%
  • ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • FW
    FRIENDS WITH FOOD
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • GO
    GALS ON THE GO PROJECT INCORPORATED DBA THRIVE TOGETHER
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +1%
  • MC
    MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +133%

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 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
2
Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

—
3
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.

—
4
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
5
Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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6
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
7
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—
8
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
9
Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee Inc

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

Education
10
Montessori Institute of Milwaukee Inc

Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods

—
11
Journey House Inc

Journey house empowers families on milwaukee's near southside to move out of poverty by offering adult education, youth development, workforce readiness, and family engagement.

Human Services
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Peace Learning Center of Milwaukeeinc. 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 32 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%10%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr20%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr20%21%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/166
the rest of the field
12%
938/8,138

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.

04the grantee network

150 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. 150 of the 315 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)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
147/150
Grantees still filing
114/150
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST ANTHONY SCHOOL MILWAUKEE — $12,935 · OtherMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC — $17,778 · Other+113 more — $331,610 · Other+113 moreSHARP LITERACY INC — $13,443 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INCNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $11,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE…HEAR Wisconsin Inc — $9,500 · Human ServicesHEAR Wisconsin IncDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesDOWN SYNDROME ASSO…THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $8,502 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S CENTER…Hmong American Friendship Association Inc — $8,500 · Human ServicesHmong American Fri…PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesPROFESSIONAL FIRE …BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC — $7,106 · Human ServicesBAY VIEW COMMUNITY…CHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN — $6,500 · Human ServicesSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 · Human ServicesWALKER'S POINT YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH ACADEMY INC — $4,900 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $4,500 · Human Services+13 more — $29,950 · Human Services+13 moreABOVE THE CLOUDS INC — $13,456 · Arts & CultureABOVE THE CLOUDS …UPSTREAM ARTS INC — $10,795 · Arts & CultureUPSTREAM ARTS INCWILD SPACE INC — $9,750 · Arts & CultureWILD SPACE INCLATINO ARTS INC — $9,628 · Arts & CultureLATINO ARTS INCARTS AT LARGE INC — $8,950 · Arts & CultureARTS AT LARGE INCWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $7,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN CONSERV…MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $6,500 · Arts & CultureKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD — $5,800 · Arts & CultureNEXT ACT THEATRE INC — $5,528 · Arts & CultureRENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC — $5,500 · Arts & CultureARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC — $5,450 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,250 · Arts & CultureFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE — $5,250 · Arts & CultureBLACK ARTS MKE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC — $4,880 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD — $4,750 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $14,150 · Arts & Culture+10 moreVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $12,750 · HealthVISION FO…Core El Centro Incorporated — $8,000 · HealthCore El C…AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $7,050 · HealthAUDIO & B…AUTISM UNITED INC — $7,000 · HealthAUTISM UN…GOOD FRIEND INC — $6,500 · HealthGOOD FRIE…LIFESTRIDERS INC — $6,000 · HealthLIFESTRID…ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC — $4,500 · HealthISLANDS O…Chix 4 A Cause LTD — $3,500 · HealthChix 4 A …CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC — $3,400 · HealthGALS ON THE GO PROJECT INCORPORATED DBA THRIVE TOGETHER — $2,500 · Health+2 more — $4,000 · Health+2 moreLA CAUSA INC — $24,720 · EducationLA CAUSA …COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $9,850 · EducationCOLLEGE P…COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · EducationCOPS AND …EX FABULA INC — $7,500 · EducationEX FABULA…MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,114 · EducationMILWAUKEE…EASTBROOK ACADEMY INC — $4,950 · EducationEASTBROOK…THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $3,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI — $18,791 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Urban Leaders — $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentTBEY ARTS CENTER INC — $4,250 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT KINDRED INC — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD2CHANGE INC — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ROCK MILWAUKEE INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $1,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $8,986 · ReligionCITY ON A HILL INC — $8,242 · ReligionProject Concern of Cudahy-St Francis Inc — $6,000 · ReligionWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC — $2,750 · Religion
Other$362,323Human Services$132,901Arts & Culture$127,637Health$65,200Education$65,134Youth Development$40,541Religion$25,978

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetLA CAUSA INC — $24,720 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI — $18,791 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC — $17,778 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetABOVE THE CLOUDS INC — $13,456 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC — $13,443 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetVISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $12,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC — $11,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHope Center Inc — $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $10,850 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTREAM ARTS INC — $10,795 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $9,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SPACE INC — $9,750 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetLATINO ARTS INC — $9,628 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc — $9,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetCATHEDRAL CENTER INC — $8,986 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARTS AT LARGE INC — $8,950 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $8,502 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED — $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHmong American Friendship Association Inc — $8,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSE WI EMERGENCY SUPPORT GROUP INC — $8,347 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCITY ON A HILL INC — $8,242 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF HEALTH INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCore El Centro Incorporated — $8,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $7,590 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEX FABULA INC — $7,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC — $7,106 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC — $7,050 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM UNITED INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN — $6,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD FRIEND INC — $6,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetProject Concern of Cudahy-St Francis Inc — $6,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESTRIDERS INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF MILWAUKEE — $5,874 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD — $5,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMKE URBAN STABLES INC — $5,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEXT ACT THEATRE INC — $5,528 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE NAVIGATORS INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $5,482 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS WORKING IN EDUCATION INC — $5,450 over 6y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds LA CAUSA INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UPSTREAM ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds LATINO ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHEDRAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS AT LARGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Hmong American Friendship Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SE WI EMERGENCY SUPPORT GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Core El Centro Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds EX FABULA INC ↗
  • Who funds BAY VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD FRIEND 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…United Way of Greater…Gardner FoundationBert L and Patricia S…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Jerome J and Dorothy …The Ros FoundationHarri Hoffmann Family…Anon Charitable Trust
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI173.4× affinity110 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 · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · The Ros Foundation · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust

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 Youth 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
64report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Youth Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Youth 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 315 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines