Wisconsin · Private foundation
Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $273k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $273k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $250k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $232k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $184k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $251k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $218k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $230k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $233k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independence First Inc | $183,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $170,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Betty Brinn Children's Museum Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Uwm Research Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Audio & Braille Literacy Enhancement Inc | $77,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Marquette University | $76,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kathy's House Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $74,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Center for Deaf-Blind Persons Inc | $62,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Afar Inc Dba the Ability Center | $50,000 | 3 | 2% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($583k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Schoenleber Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc
- How much does Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc give?
- Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $273,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (17%), Education (15%).
- Who are Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Independence First Inc ($183k), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($170k), Betty Brinn Children's Museum Inc ($160k).
- Does Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc based?
- Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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