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UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,250 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($93,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$116k
Net assets
$110M
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What University School of Milwaukee Endowment Fund Inc does

Mission

To support the university school of milwaukee in the fulfillment of its educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The university school of milwaukee endowment funds, inc is an investment vehicle to provide essential support of the university school of milwaukee. These investments, many of which have been established as named funds by our donors, provide important funding of academic and co-curricular programs, faculty and staff compensation, financial aid, curriculum development and campus maintenance not covered by tuition and other revenues.

    $4,479,599 spentof which $4,145,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,479,599.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($70M)2018 Revenue 268 ($4.0M) Expenses 103 ($3.4M) Net assets 109 ($76M)2019 Revenue 210 ($3.1M) Expenses 106 ($3.5M) Net assets 115 ($81M)2020 Revenue 146 ($2.2M) Expenses 115 ($3.8M) Net assets 114 ($80M)2021 Revenue 43 ($648k) Expenses 138 ($4.5M) Net assets 141 ($99M)2022 Revenue 158 ($2.4M) Expenses 130 ($4.2M) Net assets 125 ($88M)2023 Revenue 86 ($1.3M) Expenses 152 ($5.0M) Net assets 132 ($93M)2024 Revenue 56 ($835k) Expenses 139 ($4.5M) Net assets 145 ($102M)2025 Revenue 94 ($1.4M) Expenses 140 ($4.6M) Net assets 157 ($110M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (140)Net assets (157)Peer revenue range

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 $80M to $99M (+23%).

$70M
$76M
$81M
$80M
$99M
$88M
$93M
$102M
$110M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

39% of UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.8M
’17
$645k
’18
−$345k
’19
−$1.6M
’20
−$3.9M
’21
−$1.9M
’22
−$3.7M
’23
−$3.7M
’24
−$3.2M
’25
1.8
months of
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

Thomas Florsheim Jr

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101010111412131112
Joined·+0+0+3+3+0+2+0+2
No longer listed·00202121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $53k → $200.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND 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

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC.

81%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

87% of UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states.

WI
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $116k to it.

Operating margin−227% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC

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In Wisconsin

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The University School of Milwaukee · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC?
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,250 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($93,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $116,250 in grants to UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $93,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE ENDOWMENT FUND 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 5 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