Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp
Milwaukee, WI · EIN 48-1307009. Reported 42 grants totalling $24.8M to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $45,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $200,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $6,370,396. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See Attached Statement | Milwaukee, WI | $18.5M | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $1,112,288 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for the Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology | Manchester, NH | $900,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Online Giving Foundation Inc | Newark, DE | $874,126 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Discovery World Ltd | Milwaukee, WI | $550,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $425,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Greater Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | $413,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $215,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mind Research Institute | Irvine, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City Year Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American National Red Cross | Milwaukee, WI | $145,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Uk Online Giving Foundation | London | $131,213 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| African American Leadership Alliance Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Tech Hub (for-M) | Milwaukee, WI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Urban Ecology Center | Milwaukee, WI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Public Museum | Milwaukee, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Great Lakes Museum of Science | Cleveland, OH | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harbor District Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Public Allies Wisconsin | Milwaukee, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sharp Literacy | Milwaukee, WI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wisconsin Reading Corp | Minneapolis, MN | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| STEM Forward | Milwaukee, WI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mmac (milwaukee Development Corp) | Milwaukee, WI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Milwaukee Urban League | Milwaukee, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Public Library Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pearls for Teen Girls | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Community Center Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zoological Society of Milwaukee County | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Merit | Evanston, IL | $11,680 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Independencefirst Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland Inc | Cleveland, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
1 of 39 (3%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Discovery World Ltd
General Operating, Education support
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | $5,916,904 | $5,916,904 |
| 2021 | 1 | $6,255,890 | $6,255,890 |
| 2022 | 1 | $6,370,396 | $6,370,396 |
| 2023 | 39 | $6,212,807 | $45,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 90% of this one's giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $45,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1201 S 2ND Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53204. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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