Wisconsin · Nonprofit
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,475,071 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,259,748). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year. MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$89M
Recipients
508
Contributions on record
$25M
Donors on record
102
Payments out run 3.6x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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 funderslocal
- Charles Grunfeld Foundationincportfolio match
- Frieda & George Zinberg Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 0% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.8M.
16 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.8M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc); $234k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
94% of MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION 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. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 89 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · funds 88 organizations near you
- Charles Grunfeld Foundationincportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frieda & George Zinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Perlman Family Foundation Founded by Anita and Louis Perlmanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth & Samuel Salzberg Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steven K and Winifred a Grinspoon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Burke Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- Brewers Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 76 organizations that share your funders · funds 99 organizations near you
- Nicholas Family Foundation Trustshared fundersWI · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Charles D Jacobus Family Foundationshared fundersWI · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushausshared fundersWI · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Weiss Family Foundationshared funderslocalWI · backs 60 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Mjf Holdings of Milwaukee · disregarded
- Mjf Housing No 2 Inc · exempt
- Mjf Housing No 3 Inc · exempt
- Wjcsi LLC · exempt
- Mjf Golda Meir Housing Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION 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 MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC?
- MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,475,071 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,259,748). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year. MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $18,475,071 in grants to MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,259,748 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 89funders 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