· Private foundation
Youth Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA CAUSA INC | $3,800 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $3,000 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY | $3,000 |
| SHARP LITERACY | $2,881 |
| FUTURE URBAN LEADERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN | $2,500 |
| MKE URBAN STABLES | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COPS AND KIDS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MILWAUKEE CHRISTIAN CENTER | $2,000 |
| LOGAN JAMES HERR FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| SPINA BIFIDA WISCONSIN | $2,000 |
| CHOSEN INC OF WISCONSIN | $2,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +575%- MHMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +129%
ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- FWFRIENDS WITH FOODone grant, 2023 · $5k
- GOGALS ON THE GO PROJECT INCORPORATED DBA THRIVE TOGETHERone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +1%
- CFCHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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.
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.
Making the arts accessible to all
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.
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,…
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
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.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
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…
A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future
Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods
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.
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…
How this is measured
150 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. 150 of the 315 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Core El Centro Incorporated ↗
- 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 GOOD FRIEND INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Youth Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youth Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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