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Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$561k
Granted FY2025still arriving
115
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$169k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$952kPhilanthropy$602kEducation$469kFood & Nutrition$345kHuman Services$206kYouth Development$83kEnvironment$47kHousing & Shelter$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k108 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $368k
$500
Median grant
20
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way Of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County$168,855
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$129,708
Hunger Task Force Inc$69,260
United Community Center$25,000
Sojourner Family Peace Center$20,000
Next Door Foundation$18,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
North Carolina State University$6,000
Campbell University$6,000
Hunger Task Force Inc$5,200
Big Brothers Big Sisters$5,000
OMPRAKASH INC$5,000
CALL IN THE CAVALRY INC$5,000
St Mary Congregation$5,000
Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc$4,950
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Mattie N Dixon Comm Cupboard Inc: $100 → 7%Hair We Share: $100 → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $400 → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $100 → 5%Full Shelf Food Pantry Inc: $500 → 6%Wisconsibibs Inc: $100 → 7%Bethesda Lutheran Communities: $1k → 8%Light of Life Ministries Inc: $2k → 11%Seeds of Love: $500 → 12%The Womens Center Inc: $100 → 5%Wisconsibs Inc: $100 → 7%Leader Dogs for the Blind: $289 → 8%Omega House Inc: $100 → 14%WISCONSIBS INC: $100 → 7%GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $200 → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 8%American National Red Cross: $513 → 14%Kenosha Achievement Center Inc: $550 → 10%Misericordia Home: $100 → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN: $100 → 12%Kenosha Achievement Center Inc: $500 → 10%Misericordia Home: $100 → 14%Kenosha Achievement Center: $500 → 10%Misericordia Home: $100 → 14%Kenosha Achievement Center Inc: $300 → 10%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $2k → 17%Catholic Charities of the Archidiocese of Milwaukee Inc: $400 → 17%United Community Center: $25k → 17%United Community Center: $25k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $20k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $20k → 17%United Community Center: $10k → 17%United Community Center: $10k → 17%United Community Center Inc: $10k → 17%United Community Center Inc: $7k → 17%United Community Center: $3k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $15k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $1k → 17%Mr Bobs under the Bridge: $500 → 17%Journey House Inc: $350 → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $1k → 17%United Community Center Inc: $204 → 17%United Community Center Inc: $200 → 17%United Community Center Inc: $108 → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $15k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $15k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $5k → 17%Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $500 → 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

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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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 119 repeat orgs$864k to everyone else

119 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119
213

Total granted

$2.0M
$703k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+13%

Still filing today

66%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +114%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $91k · revenue +22%
  • MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
    5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Of Wisconsin Fd
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • CH
    Children's Hospital of WI Foundatio
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • UW
    United Way
    one grant, 2023 · $90k
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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

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)

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
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Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is La Blueprint. 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

238 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 238 of the 387 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
233/238
Grantees still filing
133/238
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $323,234 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE INCChildren's Hospital Of Wisconsin Fd: $200,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Of Wisconsin FdChildren's Hospital of WI Foundatio: $200,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital of WI FoundatioAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $129,708 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCUnited Way: $90,000 · OtherUnited WayIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · Other+126 more: $490,444 · Other+126 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $482,013 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREAT…+4 more: $13,700 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPI…+12 more: $11,846 · HealthALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $50,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $45,137 · EducationTRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationBRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE INC: $8,000 · EducationOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · Education+22 more: $53,263 · EducationSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $94,700 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $90,835 · Human Services+13 more: $9,402 · Human ServicesNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $46,600 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $2,750 · Recreation & SportsURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $40,250 · EnvironmentLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $4,500 · Environment+1 more: $350 · Environment
Other$1,483,386Philanthropy$495,713Health$411,846Education$207,400Human Services$194,937Recreation & Sports$49,350Environment$45,100

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $482,013 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $323,234 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $94,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $90,835 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $46,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $45,137 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $40,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $9,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $6,908 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC: $4,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING LANDS & WATERS: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWheaton College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAvery Coonley School: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT A TOIGO FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEL CANTO CHORUS OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2,485 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL SPACES INC: $2,183 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $2,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINSHIP MKE INC: $2,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAWHIDE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $2,000 over 1y, 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds OMPRAKASH INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT & STRATTON COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗

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 IncWI72.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation 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 Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc). Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
49report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 387 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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