· Private foundation
Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $238k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER | $20,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $15,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE PERFORMING ARTS CT | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| NEXT DOOR | $10,000 |
| RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 5 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, 95% 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
RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $77k · revenue +4%
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +5%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $51k
META HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +16%- AJA JMKACone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Making the arts accessible to all
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
Support the south milwaukee performing arts center and community arts
Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code ("irc") and for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to…
Monroe street arts center engages a community of learners in exploring the arts and developing the creative self
To spark imagination and build community through the creation and experience of theater.
Orchestral program for communit
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
Madison youth choirs, inc. (myc) inspires youth with a choral experience that fosters creativity, reflection, and the exploration of ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee and the most unlike its peers is Next Door Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 142 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 JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENTINE OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARP LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CORP ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S OUTING ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Harri Hoffmann Family 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 Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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