· Private foundation
Berghammer Construction 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES | $30,000 |
| AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| REVITALIZE MILWAUKEE | $7,500 |
| CONSERVANCY FOR HEALING & HERITAGE | $6,500 |
| SEEDS OF HEALTH | $5,000 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI | $5,000 |
| 16TH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $5,000 |
| HAWS | $3,000 |
| ROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ST BONIFACE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,850 |
| FEED YOUR SOUL | $2,500 |
| AGC EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION - MILWAUKEE CHAPTER | $2,500 |
| ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA PARISH | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| FROEDTERT MENOMONEE FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +6%- SOSEEDS OF HEALTH INC8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +54%
AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +247%
Funded once
- RARedeem and Restore Center Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +7%
- SSST STEPHENS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $8k
- TITHE INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KINGone grant, 2024 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Continuously improving the health of our community.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of older adults through gracious retirement living, spiritual growth, cultural and educational opportunities and health care services.
The primary purpose of the medical center is to aid and support the development and provision of health services in wisconsin by assisting its members to develop and operate programs of education, research, and patient care. the medical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Butler Community Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Redeem and Restore Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Revitalize Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds SIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB OF MEQUON- THIENSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR HEALING & ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds FEED YOUR SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Butler Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY ON A HILL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH ACADEMY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Ros Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Berghammer Construction Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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