Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,737 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($61,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $302k
- Net assets
- $213k
What Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth Inc does
Mission
To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic of child abuse in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Milwaukee center for children and youth has helped over 200 famlies to obtain or maintain housing through housing first programming. Provided supportive and healing services to over 300 children, youth and their families who have experienced trauma. Launched economic justice programmng to help survivors achieve equity and long-term well-being.
$1,012,083 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,012,083.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $173k to $262k (+52%).
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: 2017 76% · 2018 66% · 2019 65% · 2020 71% · 2021 54% · 2022 83% · 2023 88% · 2024 88% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $39k → $20k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH 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
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% 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 MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 47% · 2019 65% · 2020 38% · 2021 72% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — 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
30% of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
97% of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Against its field
MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- Department of Justice$200k
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 MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC?
- MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,737 to it, the largest being GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ($61,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $301,737 in grants to MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC?
- GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing