Usinger Foundation Inc
Milwaukee, WI · EIN 39-6066333. Reported 137 grants totalling $113,550 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. 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. Usinger Foundation Inc 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 $750. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $2,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding America Eastern Wi | Milwaukee, WI | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | $6,950 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Capuchin Community Services | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Meat & Poultry Research | Washington, DC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Milwaukee Center for Independence | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Milwaukee Public Museum | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| River Revitalization Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Schlitz Audubon Center | Bayside, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sojourner Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Marcus School | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Community Center | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Zoological Society of Milwaukee County | Milwaukee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kathy's House | Wauwatosa, WI | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Make a Wish | Wauwatosa, WI | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Stage | Milwaukee, WI | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood House | Milwaukee, WI | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Ann Center | Milwaukee, WI | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Joseph Academy | Milwaukee, WI | $3,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Florentine Opera of Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Milwaukee County Historical Society | Milwaukee, WI | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wisconsin FFA Foundation | Madison, WI | $2,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brotherbig Sister | Milwaukee, WI | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mel's Charities | Cedarburg, WI | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity | Milwaukee, WI | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Next Generation Foundation | Lancaster, PA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Repairers of the Breach | Milwaukee, WI | $2,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wisconsin Livestock & Meat Council Scholarship Fund | Madison, WI | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion | Milwaukee, WI | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Guest House | Milwaukee, WI | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Red Cross | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Deafblind Persons | West Allis, WI | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| German Immersion Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Historic Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Village of Bayside | Bayside, WI | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Curative Care Network Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Easter Seals Southeast Wisconsin | West Allis, WI | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Catherine Residence - Mercy Housing | Milwaukee, WI | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Meghan's Mission | Oconomowoc, WI | $600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hope House | Milwaukee, WI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La CASA De Esperanza Inc | Waukesha, WI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Milwaukee Christian Center | Milwaukee, WI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Cathedral Center Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc | Menomonee Falls, WI | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pewaukee Baseball Club | Pewaukee, WI | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Anne's Catholic Church | Boulder Junction, WI | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
36 of 47 (77%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 89%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
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.
- United Community Center
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN/ANIMALS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 76 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 37 | $31,850 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 38 | $32,200 | $875 |
| 2023 | 31 | $24,800 | $750 |
| 2024 | 31 | $24,700 | $750 |
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. 95% 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 $750. 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 Usinger Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1030 N Dr Martin Luther King JR Dr, Milwaukee, WI, 53203. 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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