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Balestrieri Family 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.

$47k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
62%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$34,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$142k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$47k50%
FY202413$35k62%
FY202312$30k75%
FY202210$9k40%
FY202115$13k73%
FY20205$5k80%
FY20191$4k0%
FY20181$2k0%
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kEnvironment$7kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$3kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Benefit$700Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Elkhorn Area School District$50,8502n/a
Star Valley Search and Rescue$13,943118%
Lauderdale-Lagrange Fire Dept Inc$2,75060%
Lauderdale Lakes Yacht Club Inc$2,0002n/a
Nicholas D Sergi Foundation$1,00010%
The Newport Wilderness Society Inc$7501n/a
Aquanut Water Shows Inc$60020%
Vilas County Economic Development Corpor$50010%
Bay View Historical Society Inc$2501n/a
Manitowish Waters Bike Trail Inc$25010%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Elkhorn Area School District$50,8502n/a
Star Valley Search and Rescue$13,943118%
Lauderdale-Lagrange Fire Dept Inc$2,75060%
Lauderdale Lakes Yacht Club Inc$2,0002n/a
Nicholas D Sergi Foundation$1,00010%
The Newport Wilderness Society Inc$7501n/a
Aquanut Water Shows Inc$60020%
Vilas County Economic Development Corpor$50010%
Bay View Historical Society Inc$2501n/a
Manitowish Waters Bike Trail Inc$25010%
Ice Age Trail Alliance Inc$25010%
Friends of Lakeland School$1001n/a
Walworth County Literacy Council$10010%
Northwoods Wildlife Center$10010%

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStar Valley Search and Rescue: $13,943 over 1y, 18% of budgetLauderdale-Lagrange Fire Dept Inc: $2,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNicholas D Sergi Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAquanut Water Shows Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVilas County Economic Development Corpor: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetManitowish Waters Bike Trail Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIce Age Trail Alliance Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalworth County Literacy Council: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwoods Wildlife Center: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Lumw FoundationWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lumw Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc

How much does Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc give?
Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $47,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Environment (5%).
Who are Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elkhorn Area School District ($51k), Star Valley Search and Rescue ($14k), Lauderdale-Lagrange Fire Dept Inc ($3k).
Does Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Balestrieri Family 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 Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lumw Foundation, Kunes Family Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc based?
Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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