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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$142k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELKHORN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$34,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NICHOLAS D SERGI FOUNDATION$1,000
LAUDERDALE LAKES YACHT CLUB$1,000
LAUDERDALE-LAGRANGE FIRE DEPARTMENT$500
AQUANUT WATER SHOW$300
ST ANDREWS PARISH SCHOOL$250
NORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIDWESTUSA FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%SCI WISCONSIN: $1k → 5%NEWPORT WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $750 → 8%AQUANUT WATER SHOW: $300 → 10%UWGB FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%DELAVAN DARIEN HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 10%TWIN OAKS HOMELESS SHELTER: $250 → 10%ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE: $250 → 10%VILAS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $500 → 10%FRIENDS OF NECEDAH: $500 → 14%ROME TOWN CENTER PARK PROJECT: $250 → 16%BAY VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 → 17%NICHOLAS D SERGI FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%LAUDERDALE LAKES YACHT CLUB: $500 → 8%STAR VALLEY SEARCH AND RESCUE: $14k → 8%AQUANUT WATER SHOW: $300 → 10%ST ANDREWS PARISH SCHOOL: $250 → 10%WIDE OPEN WISCONSIN AVALANCE SAFETY COURSE: $5k → 10%WISCONSIN DNR: $10k → 10%THREE HARBORS COUNCIL: $500 → 17%LAUDERDALE LAKES YACHT CLUB: $500 → 8%ELKHORN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $34k → 10%WIDE OPEN WISCONSIN AVALANCE SAFETY COURSE: $2k → 10%BOULDER JCT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%LAUDERDALE LAKES YACHT CLUB: $500 → 8%ELKHORN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $17k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF WI: $500 → 10%ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF WI: $500 → 10%ELKHORN TRAP TEAM: $5k → 10%AGC OF WISCONSIN: $500 → 10%LAUDERDALE LAKE LAKE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: $5k → 10%WAYNE BLANCHARD RECOVERY FUND: $5k → 10%ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 10%ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 10%ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 10%ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 10%ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 10%ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 10%LAUDERDALE LAKES YACHT CLUB: $1k → 10%LAUDERDALE LAKES YACHT CLUB: $1k → 10%SOUTHERN WAKES UNITED: $4k → 10%SOUTHERN WAKES UNITED: $2k → 10%LAUDERDALE-LAGRANGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 10%LAUDERDALE-LAGRANGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 10%LAUDERDALE-LAGRANGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 10%LAUDERDALE-LAGRANGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 10%LAUDERDALE-LAGRANGE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$101k · 13 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
25

Total granted

$101k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+8%

Still filing today

15%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • EA
    Elkhorn Area School District
    2× · 2024–2025 · $51k
  • EA
    ELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $26k
  • WO
    WIDE OPEN WISCONSIN AVALANCE SAFETY COURSE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k

Funded once

  • SV
    Star Valley Search and Rescuegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +35%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • LL
    LAUDERDALE LAKE LAKE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of Stone Lakes National Wildlife
Environment
2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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3
Coastwatch Wildlife Society
Science & Tech
4
North Shore Wildlife Sanctuary Inc

Maintenance of a refuge for wildlife

Animals
5
Northern Waters Land Trust

To fund, promote, and enable activities that will protect the natural environment of the area for the use and enjoyment of current and future generations.

Environment
6
Wildlife Experience Inc
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7
Presque Isle Sno-Trails

Trail maintenance - department of natural resources

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8
North American Wolf Foundation Inc

Protect the wolf in the wild through education and exposure.

Animals
9
Whitewater Valley Railroad Association Inc

The whitewater valley railroad is a heritage railroad dedicated to the preservation and presentation of branch line railroading.

Arts & Culture
10
Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust Inc

To preserve lands that protect our waters, landscapes and natural habitats in northeast wisconsin. ne wisconsin is critical to the health of the largest freshwater estuaries in the world-lake michigan's crucial wetlands.

Environment
11
Lakes Region Search and Rescue Inc
Public Safety & Disaster
12
Whitefish Area Property Owners Association

Protecting the quality of whitefish lake

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natural Resources Foundation of; the most unlike its peers is Nicholas D Sergi Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Elkhorn Area School District: $50,850 · OtherElkhorn Area School DistrictELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOL: $26,000 · OtherELKHORN AREA HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWIDE OPEN WISCONSIN AVALANCE SAFETY COURSE: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,200 · OtherLAUDERDALE LAKE LAKE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: $5,000 · OtherWAYNE BLANCHARD RECOVERY FUND: $5,000 · Other+27 more: $17,650 · Other+27 moreStar Valley Search and Rescue: $13,943 · Public Safety & DisasterStar Valley …LAUDERDALE-LAGRANGE FIRE DEPT INC: $2,750 · Public Safety & DisasterLAUDERDALE-L…Nicholas D Sergi Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAQUANUT WATER SHOWS INC: $600 · Recreation & SportsMANITOWISH WATERS BIKE TRAIL INC: $250 · Recreation & SportsVILAS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOR: $500 · Community ImprovementWALWORTH COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $100 · EducationNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER: $100 · Environment
Other$132,400Public Safety & Disaster$16,693Philanthropy$1,000Recreation & Sports$850Community Improvement$500Education$100Environment$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetNATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Star Valley Search and Rescue ↗
  • Who funds LAUDERDALE-LAGRANGE FIRE DEPT INC ↗
  • Who funds Nicholas D Sergi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWPORT WILDERNESS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AQUANUT WATER SHOWS INC ↗
  • Who funds VILAS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOR ↗
  • Who funds BAY VIEW HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MANITOWISH WATERS BIKE TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗

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 FoundationKunes Family Foundati…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Balestrieri Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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