Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc
Milwaukee, WI · EIN 47-3620094. Reported 62 grants totalling $2,129,944 to 55 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 54% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 11% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $400,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Basketball Association Foundation | Secaucus, NJ | $1,150,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Harley Davidson Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $43,590 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Running Rebels Community Organization Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $41,203 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mentor Greater Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| My Way Out Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Safe & Sound Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Sojourner Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Milwaukee Parks Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $26,651 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Space Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc | Fitchburg, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development | Milwaukee, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Silver Spring Neighborhood Center Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Our Community Ltd | Milwaukee, WI | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Learn Fresh Education Co | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Street Angels Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| True Skool Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wisconsin Conservation Voices Inc | Madison, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wisconsin Womens Business Initiative Corporation | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Maruf Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Benedict Center Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Groundwork Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| I Have a Dream Foundation -Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kids Forward Inc | Madison, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Layton Boulevard West Neighbors Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| LEAD2CHANGE Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maroon Calabash Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Prism Economic Development Corporation | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Purpose Driven Sisters 2 Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| STRYV365 | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wisconsin Voices Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Your Move Mke | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alma Center Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City Year Inc | Boston, MA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 100 Black Men of Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| All Hands Boatworks Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Promise of Monroe County Inc | Sparta, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Full of Grace Foundation Inc | El Dorado Hls, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glow 414 Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hope House of Milwaukee Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| League of Women Voters Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mke Youth Sports Alliance Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Riveredge Nature Center Inc | Newburg, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Womens Center Inc | Waukesha, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wisconsin Adaptive Sports Association Inc | Brookfield, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Woodlands School Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Literacy Lab | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Milwaukee Public Library Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Seal Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc | Wausau, WI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
5 of 55 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Nba Foundation
TO SUPPORT THE GENERAL ACTIVITIES AND GOALS OF THE CHARITY - Greater Milwaukee Committee
TO SUPPORT GENERAL ACTIVITIES AND THE GOALS OF THE ORGANIZATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 47 of 55 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | $633,590 | $22,500 |
| 2021 | 28 | $674,703 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 25 | $571,651 | $12,500 |
| 2023 | 1 | $250,000 | $250,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
54% of its giving went to organizations in New Jersey. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New Jersey.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1543 N 2ND Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53213.
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