Organization
Optimist Theatre Inc
See who has funded you, who else those funders support, and which potential new funders your network brings into view.
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Your funders
16 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 14 are locally focused, 1 has national reach, and 1 is no longer active.
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc5 years$80,000
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc3 years$30,000
- Gardner Foundation5 years$13,596
- Maihaugen Foundation Inc3 years$11,000
- Green Bay Packers Foundation3 years$9,000
Showing 5 of 16. See all 19 funders
3 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.
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Your funding peers
Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 2,091 funding connections →
24 Performing Arts Organizations funding peers share at least three of your funders.
- Milwaukee Repertory Theater IncWI12 shared funders
- Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra IncWI12 shared funders
- Florentine Opera Co IncWI11 shared funders
- Milwaukee Ballet Company IncWI10 shared funders
- Milwaukee Chamber Theatre LtdWI10 shared funders
- Next Act Theatre IncWI10 shared funders
- Renaissance Theaterworks IncWI10 shared funders
- Danceworks IncWI8 shared funders
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Potential new funders
Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.
In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.
Showing the first 3 strongly connected funders.