Wisconsin · Private foundation
Astor Street Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $782k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Astor Street Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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 | 42 | $782k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $513k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $445k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $302k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $463k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $345k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $318k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $590k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc | $356,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc | $257,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Island Institute | $250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $237,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Amherst College Trustees | $210,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The University School of Milwaukee Corporation | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Film Inc | $155,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Radio Milwaukee Inc | $150,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Services Inc | $127,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($769k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Astor Street 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 · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Anon Charitable Trust · Youth Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Astor Street Foundation Inc
- How much does Astor Street Foundation Inc give?
- Astor Street Foundation Inc reported 45 grants totaling $782,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Astor Street Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (14%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Astor Street Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc ($356k), Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc ($258k), Island Institute ($250k).
- Does Astor Street Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Astor Street Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Astor Street Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc.
- Where is Astor Street Foundation Inc based?
- Astor Street Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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