Wisconsin · Nonprofit
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,889,988 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($9,950,000). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 161
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $276M
What The Uwm Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. Is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students, faculty, programs, and community. In addition, the uwm foundation provides leadership, oversight, and direction to its affiliated corporations, the uwm real estate foundation, inc. And the uwm research foundation, inc. These corporations create new university facilities to support student life, research, academics and regional economic development, and provide new sources of revenue from research, commercialization, and entrepreneurial activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: general support of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee's administration, schools, colleges, library, etc. For the benefit of its students, faculty, and staff.
$7,606,398 spentof which $7,606,398 as grants31% of program spendingScholarship programs: financial aid awarded to students enrolled at the university of wisconsin-milwaukee.
$7,207,574 spentof which $7,207,574 as grants29% of program spendingEducational programs: special projects including sponsorship of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee's public radio station, honors program, performing arts concert hall, science bag series, and inner city nursing clinic.
$7,108,453 spentof which $7,108,453 as grants29% of program spendingEducational programs: research projects conducted by faculty and researchers in various schools at the univeristy of wisconsin-milwaukee including health sciences, architecture, engineering, letters & sciences, nursing, and graduate school. Education: community service programs including seminars, lectures, and performances sponsored by the university of wisconsin-milwaukee for the enrichment of the metro-milwaukee community.
$2,620,091 spentof which $1,969,829 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,542,516.
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 2020 to 2021, from $211M to $249M (+18%).
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 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of THE UWM FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Matthew Rinka
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $3.0M → $4.5M.
28 of 161 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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: $17M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE UWM FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE UWM FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 161 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
38% 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 THE UWM FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 24% · 2019 20% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 15% · 2023 14% — 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
49% of THE UWM FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
95% of THE UWM FOUNDATION 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. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE UWM FOUNDATION 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc · exempt
- The Uwm Research Foundation Inc · exempt
- The Uwm Alumni Assoc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC?
- THE UWM FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 161 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,889,988 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($9,950,000). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UWM FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 161 organizations giving $38,889,988 in grants to THE UWM FOUNDATION INC, 101 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UWM FOUNDATION INC?
- JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UWM FOUNDATION 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 161 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing