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ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC
ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $563,974 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($179,950). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $564k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Gardner Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inclocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 40% · 2021 44% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $28k → $116k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 64% · 2020 52% · 2021 40% · 2022 41% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $256k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchWI · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Gardner Foundationlocalportfolio matchWI · funds 91 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 36 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchWI · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joy Engine Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cudahy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heil Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph Evinrude Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 117 organizations that share your funders · funds 153 organizations near you
- The Burke Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- Daniel M Soref Rvoc Trshared fundersWI · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Brewers Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 66 organizations that share your funders · funds 97 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC?
- ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $563,974 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($179,950). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $563,974 in grants to ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $179,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 17funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing