Focus
We primarily fund local cultural organizations with large audiences that make a meaningful impact in our community. Organizations we support:
Learn more about the impact the Lacey Sadoff Foundation has made through some of the organizations we support below.
- Enrich, educate, and transform their audience
- Push the status-quo and develop innovative solutions
- Value human connection
- Empower female leaders and entrepreneurs
- Inform an engaged, inclusive community
- Build value through vibrant experiences and robust culture
- Inform, strengthen, and transform lives
Learn more about the impact the Lacey Sadoff Foundation has made through some of the organizations we support below.
As a teaching museum, the Haggerty seeks to enhance the undergraduate educational experience by engaging students in various disciplines to think about the world and their subject matter through the lenses of the visual arts. The museum also works collaboratively with elementary and middle school teachers, local artists, and College of Education faculty and students to design programs that engage children and youth in educational activities. Additional educational opportunities for the campus and community include free tours, lectures, workshops and performances. With the Lacey Sadoff Foundation's support, The Haggerty Museum of Art advances Marquette University’s mission by enriching the intellectual and creative lives of students and communities at large through engagement with the museum’s collections, exhibitions, and programs.
Milwaukee Film is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to building a robust, community-based film culture in the Greater Milwaukee Area. They seek to support and foster local filmmakers, the local filmmaking industry, and a vibrant community of film fans, audiences, and patrons. The Lacey Sadoff Foundation is central in Milwaukee Film's goal to make Milwaukee a global center of film culture in which film and shared cinematic experiences are used as tools for entertainment, education, engagement, and community building.
88Nine champions Milwaukee's music, arts and culture, neighborhoods and community organizations. They celebrate diversity, encourage community engagement and aspire to be a force that breaks down barriers and brings people together on the air, online, and in the community. The Lacey Sadoff Foundation supports 88Nine Radio Milwaukee in using music and stories created for a culturally open-minded community as a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive and engaged Milwaukee.
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School uses an innovative work-study program to provide a comprehensive affordable, Catholic education to students who come from families with limited financial means. All students work five full days per month at companies across the greater Milwaukee area. The Lacey Sadoff Foundation champions Cristo Rey's innovative program that help students gain confidence, connect the relevance of their academic coursework to future employment, acquire skills that will benefit their career, and receive unprecedented access to the professional world.
As a local umbrella fundraising organization, UPAF engages the community in support of 14 member groups, including First Stage, Florentine Opera Company, Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Skylight Music Theatre, as well as numerous affiliate groups. The support of the Lacey Sadoff Foundation has been instrumental in allowing these groups to focus more of their efforts on what they do best — creating, performing, educating, and inspiring.
Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts is a member-based, privately-funded non-profit dedicated to providing arts experiences not readily available in the area. Intimate concerts in the Great Hall, street concerts with major performers, indoor films, and art from world-renowned artists are available at THELMA. The the support of the Lacey Sadoff Foundation has helped to enrich the community through the arts by providing arts education, and bringing visual and performing artists to Fond du Lac.
The Women’s Fund promotes positive change in the lives of Fond du Lac area women and girls through grants to local 501(c)3 organizations for programs consistent with its mission; engages women in philanthropy; and creates community understanding of the strengths and challenges of Fond du Lac women and girls. Their core values include: Education; Stewardship; Integrity; Equity-Fairness; and Collaboration. The Lacey Sadoff Foundation has played a key role in the mission of the Fond du Lac Area Women's Fund by supporting their Leadercast Women event, funding the Green Dot Bystander Intervention training that seeks to teach people how to respond effectively when they witness violence, and promoting the Fond du Lac Says No More initiative to raise awareness of and provide strategies for ending domestic violence.
MCT believes that theater's unique value lives in connecting us more deeply to our common humanity in the service of inspiring new connections. The Lacey Sadoff Foundation is helping to create a desegregated, intersectional space built around the shared experience of live theater in which every one who feels a connection to Milwaukee know they are not only welcome but essential to the ongoing conversation about how our community can be its best self for all who call it home. Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's home is the Broadway Theatre Center (BTC) located at 158 N. Broadway in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward. The Broadway Theatre Center opened in 1993 and houses two theatre spaces, the 360-seat Cabot Theatre and the 99-seat Studio Theatre. The Broadway Theatre Center is also home to Skylight Music Theatre.
The Friends of Lakeshore State Park partners with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and our community to support Lakeshore State Park. The Lacey Sadoff Foundation helps to make Milwaukee’s premier urban lakefront a destination for environmental and freshwater education, conservation, recreation and outdoor enjoyment. The Friends of Lakeshore State Park is a non-profit organization chartered as a 501c(3) dedicated to supporting Lakeshore State Park and its partners. The Friends raise funds for and participate in educational programming, events, infrastructure, and marketing and build memberships and strategic alliances to succeed in these efforts
Since 1956, Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) has been nurturing, challenging, and inspiring young minds, profoundly changing lives and our community for the better. MYSO has grown from one orchestra and 30 students to become one of the largest and most respected youth orchestras in the country. With the support of the Lacey Sadoff Foundation MYSO enrolls 900 of the area’s young musicians who come from 200 schools, 90 zip codes, and as many as 14 counties throughout southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Each year we provide outreach programs to an additional 5,000 youth and reach an audience of 22,000 through more than 100 public performances. We offer more than 40 ensemble and enrichment training options, ranging from symphony and string orchestras, and jazz and steel pan bands to music theory, composition, and international tours, providing quality musical experiences for a wide range of skill levels. The importance of MYSO as a catalyst for youth development and community change has not gone unnoticed. In the 2015–16 season, MYSO received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the country’s highest honor for after-school youth arts and humanities programs, presented by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
In the early 1980s, a small group of dedicated volunteers set out to build the first Ronald McDonald House® in Wisconsin because families had no place to stay while their seriously ill child was being treated at Children's Wisconsin. The outpouring of support to build our House was remarkable. So much so that when we opened in 1984, we called it “The House that Love Built.®” Since then, our House has been keeping families together by providing more than 50,000 family stays. These families come from all 50 states and many countries around the world whose children are receiving medical care at Children’s Wisconsin or other area hospitals. The House is more than just a place to stay. We offer families therapeutic programming, a comprehensive meal program, comfortable community spaces and so much more. With the support of the Lacey Sadoff Foundation and a team of over 500 volunteers/staff The Ronald McDonald House is always ready to do whatever it takes to make a family’s stay a little easier. Living in a community, side by side, families form friendships and support one another through difficult times.
