Wisconsin · Private foundation
Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $333,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 74
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $76M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k 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 | 71 | $2.8M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $2.2M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $2.1M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $3.0M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $3.6M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 66 | $2.4M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 69 | $2.4M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 74 | $2.3M | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodson YMCA Inc | $1,575,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Community Partners Campus Inc | $1,086,899 | 5 | 34% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $1,010,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Performing Arts Foundation Inc | $712,500 | 9 | 24% |
| Adrc of Central Wi | $675,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area Inc | $672,500 | 9 | 14% |
| Childcaring Inc | $624,700 | 9 | 6% |
| Aspirus Health Foundation Inc | $594,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc | $512,500 | 9 | 8% |
| Marathon County Historical Society | $436,250 | 9 | 11% |
Show all 132 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 109 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Dudley Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · The Macdonald Foundation · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Lewitzke Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation
- How much does Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation give?
- Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $2,802,369 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Arts & Culture (18%), Education (15%).
- Who are Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Woodson YMCA Inc ($1.6M), Community Partners Campus Inc ($1.1M), The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc, Dudley Foundation Inc, Judd S Alexander Foundation.
- Where is Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation based?
- Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation is based in WI.
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