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Zore Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $293k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY GREATER MILWAUKEE | $113,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN | $60,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC | $60,000 |
| THE SALESIANUM TRUST | $25,000 |
| LOVE ONE ANOTHER ARCHDIOCESAN CAMPAIGN | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $20,000 |
| WAR MEMORIAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| BADGER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPTIAL | $10,000 |
| AFTER BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA | $4,000 |
| NATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2023 · $200k · revenue +30%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $64k · revenue +22%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC3× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UFUWM FOUNDATION - CHANCELLOR'S STUDENT SUCCESS FUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- WWWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +9%
- VFVOLUNTEER FL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $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.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
Inspiring philanthropy, serving donors, strengthening communities, now and for future generations.
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds BADGER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ABCD INC ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSAPHAT BASILICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Sensient Technologies Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee 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 Zore Family Foundation 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital 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.
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