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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.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
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.

Health$122kReligion$65kCommunity Improvement$60kEducation$52kHuman Services$17kHousing & Shelter$17kArts & Culture$17kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$168k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES$30,000
AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$10,000
REVITALIZE MILWAUKEE$7,500
CONSERVANCY FOR HEALING & HERITAGE$6,500
LUMEN CHRISTI$5,000
SEEDS OF HEALTH$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
JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB OF MEQUON-THIENSVILLE$1,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUMOROLOGY INC: $250 → 10%JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB OF MEQUON-THIENSVILLE: $1k → 6%JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB: $1k → 6%JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB OF MEQUON-THIENSVILLE: $1k → 6%JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB OF MEQUON-THIENSVILLE: $1k → 6%ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY: $500 → 17%ST JOSEPH ACADEMY: $500 → 17%JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB: $1k → 6%JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB: $1k → 6%JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB: $500 → 6%JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB: $500 → 6%THE HARRY & ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 17%LIPPERT CHARITABLE CORP: $200 → 5%MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOMES: $2k → 17%MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOMES: $2k → 17%HEARTLOVE PLACE: $230 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WI
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IN
OH
CA
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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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 34 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
56

Total granted

$316k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+7%

Still filing today

44%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +6%
  • SO
    SEEDS OF HEALTH INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +54%
  • AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +247%

Funded once

  • RA
    Redeem and Restore Center Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • SS
    ST STEPHENS CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING
    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
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

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2
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

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.

Health
3
Medical Society of Milwaukee Foundation Inc
Health
4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Center for Healthcare Careers of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

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…

Health
7
Community Care Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
8
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
9
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

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)

Education
10
Prohealth Waukesha Memorial Hospital Inc

Continuously improving the health of our community.

Health
11
Saint John's Communities Inc

Our mission is to enrich the lives of older adults through gracious retirement living, spiritual growth, cultural and educational opportunities and health care services.

Human Services
12
Milwaukee Regional Medical Center Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
26/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEEDS OF HEALTH INC: $37,252 · OtherSEEDS OF HEALTH INCLUMEN CHRISTI: $18,750 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTILUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH: $17,877 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCHUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND (UPAF): $13,000 · OtherUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND (UPAF)HAWS: $9,750 · OtherNATIVITY JESUIT ACADEMY INC: $9,500 · OtherSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $8,500 · OtherAGC EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION - MILWAUKEE CHAPTER: $8,500 · OtherST STEPHENS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $7,500 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $8,500 · Other+65 more: $75,963 · Other+65 moreMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementMILWAUKEE DOWNTO…+1 more: $1,500 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC: $32,000 · EducationCENTER FOR…DOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC: $5,500 · EducationDOWNTOWN M…AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 · PhilanthropyAURORA HE…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…+3 more: $1,750 · PhilanthropyRedeem and Restore Center Inc: $25,000 · HealthRedeem an…ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthROGERS ME…American Heart Association Inc: $1,500 · Health+7 more: $3,500 · Health+7 moreRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $14,750 · Housing & ShelterTEAM UP WITH FAMILIES INC: $750 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterJUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB OF MEQUON- THIENSVILLE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOME INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH ACADEMY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $500 · Human Services+3 more: $680 · Human Services
Other$215,092Community Improvement$61,500Education$37,500Philanthropy$35,750Health$33,000Housing & Shelter$17,000Human Services$12,180

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILWAUKEE DOWNTOWN INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSEEDS OF HEALTH INC: $37,252 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC: $32,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRedeem and Restore Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetRevitalize Milwaukee Inc: $14,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB OF MEQUON- THIENSVILLE INC: $7,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetDOWNTOWN MONTESSORI ACADEMY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOME INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF METRO MILWAUKEE: $2,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED YOUR SOUL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Butler Community Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetCITY ON A HILL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOY ENGINE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JOSEPH ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFroedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Connections Incorporated: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM UP WITH FAMILIES INC: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGERMANTOWN NATIONAL LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $550 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHEATRE OF OCONOMOWOC LTD: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARRY AND ROSE SAMSON FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF WI INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAUWATOSA NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH COMMITTEE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST MONICA'S SENIOR LIVING INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMOROLOGY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLOVE PLACE INC: $230 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 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 FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds SIXTEENTH STREET COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS 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 UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED YOUR SOUL 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 ↗

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI44.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Berghammer Construction Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berghammer Construction Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Berghammer Construction Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Berghammer Construction Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 106 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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