Wisconsin · Private foundation
Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $44,625
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 7 | $65k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $72k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $67k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $41k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $83k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $72k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $49k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $52k | 33% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $34,188 | 8 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc | $34,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Historic Milwaukee Inc | $10,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Metro Milwaukee Mediation Services Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy | $3,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Wild Space Inc | $2,100 | 3 | 1% |
| Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($412k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation 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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Coles Family Foundation co Peter Coles · Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Center for Housing Management Inc
How this is measured
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About Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation
- How much does Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation give?
- Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $65,117 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (79%), Education (9%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milwaukee Art Museum Inc ($34k), Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc ($34k), Hunger Task Force Inc ($16k).
- Does Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation based?
- Barbara Meyer Elsner Foundation is based in WI.
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