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Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$490k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
63
Grants FY2025
66
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
47 to 66
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$7.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving61$485k8%
FY202466$469k26%
FY202362$514k24%
FY202257$552k18%
FY202157$453k18%
FY202056$497k18%
FY201955$444k49%
FY201847$464kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$558kYouth Development$295kHuman Services$170kEnvironment$147kPhilanthropy$108kFood & Nutrition$103kAnimals$80kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
OR
IA
OH
NJ
CA
VA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 99 grantees
All grantees of Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc$230,00060%
United Performing Arts Fund Inc$140,00080%
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$140,00070%
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center Inc$100,00052%
First Stage Milwaukee$87,50080%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc$80,00060%
Renaissance Theaterworks Inc$77,00073%
The Uwm Foundation Inc$75,00030%
Mequon Nature Preserve Inc$67,50081%
Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc$60,00070%
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc$60,00060%
Hunger Task Force Inc$55,00070%
Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc$55,00070%
Florentine Opera Company Inc$55,00050%
Historic Milwaukee Inc$50,00072%
Milwaukee Film Inc$50,00060%
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc$50,00050%
St Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc$50,00050%
Next Door Foundation Inc$50,00050%
Skylight Music Theatre Corp$45,00050%
The Friendship Circle Inc$45,00083%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$45,00030%
City Year Inc$45,00080%
Sharp Literacy Inc$45,00081%
Pearls for Teen Girls Inc$42,50070%
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc$41,73350%
Urban Ecology Center Inc$40,00070%
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$40,00020%
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc$37,50020%
Next Act Theatre Inc$35,00071%
Children's Outing Association$35,00040%
Artworks for Milwaukee Inc$32,50063%
Meta House Inc$30,00010%
Ruach Inc$30,00064%
Literacy Services of Wisconsin Inc$30,00060%
Safe & Sound Inc$27,50050%
United Community Center Inc$27,50050%
Optimist Theatre$26,00064%
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Ltd$25,00051%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc$25,00053%
Arts at Large Inc$25,00050%
Islands of Brilliance Inc$25,00051%
Milwaukee Public Museum Inc$25,00030%
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc$25,00040%
Milwaukee Youth Theatre Inc$24,00076%
The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc$22,50030%
Core El Centro Incorporated$22,00050%
The Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc$20,00030%
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts Inc$20,00030%
Acts Community Development Corporation$20,00040%
Silver Spring Neighborhood Center Inc$20,00040%
City on a Hill Inc$20,00040%
Discovery World Ltd$18,00060%
Next Door Inc$17,5002n/a
Wild Space Inc$16,00053%
Imagine MKEInc$15,00022%
Tbey Arts Center Inc$15,00032%
Great Lakes Baroque Ltd$15,000135%
Cathedral Center$15,00030%
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc$15,00030%
Black Arts Mke Inc$15,00031%
Lead2change Inc$15,00031%
Hope Street Ministry Inc$15,00031%
Hope Center Inc$15,00030%
Above the Clouds Inc$15,00031%
Betty Brinn Children's Museum Inc$15,00020%
Piano Arts of Wisconsin Inc$13,50053%
Xalaat Africa Drum & Dance for Life$13,000314%
Mother Kathryn Daniels Conference Center Inc$10,00012%
Artists Working in Education Inc$10,00021%
Junior Achievement of Oregon and Sw Washington Inc$10,00020%
The New State Inc$10,00025%
Kids From Wisconsin Ltd$10,00022%
Friends of Lakeshore State Park$10,00041%
Lutheran Home Foundation Inc$10,00010%
City Forward Collective Inc$10,00020%
Our Next Generation Inc$10,00021%
Bel Canto Chorus$10,0001n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$10,00010%
Autism United Inc$7,50011%
Danceworks Inc$6,00030%
Civic Music Association of Milwaukee$6,00022%
United Community Centers Inc$5,00010%
Ex Fabula Inc$5,00021%
Raising the Bar Inc$5,00016%
The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc$5,0001n/a
Woodland Pattern Inc$5,00011%
Villa Terrace Museum and Gardens Ltd$5,0001n/a
Kids Matter Inc$5,00010%
Art Opportunities Inc$5,00010%
Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Inc$5,00010%
Milwaukee Tennis and Education Foundation$5,00021%
All Hands Boatworks Inc$5,00011%
McPreparatory School of Wisconsin Inc$5,00010%
Forest Home Historic Preservation Association Inc$4,50020%
Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Frankly Music Inc$2,50012%
Pabst Mansion Inc$2,50010%
Lakeshore Chorale Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($881k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohn Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc: $230,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Performing Arts Fund Inc: $140,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMilwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc: $140,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Arts Center Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetFirst Stage Milwaukee: $87,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMilwaukee Art Museum Inc: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRenaissance Theaterworks Inc: $77,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetThe Uwm Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMequon Nature Preserve Inc: $67,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMilwaukee Ballet Company Inc: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHunger Task Force Inc: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFlorentine Opera Company Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHistoric Milwaukee Inc: $50,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetMilwaukee Film Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMilwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNext Door Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSkylight Music Theatre Corp: $45,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Friendship Circle Inc: $45,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetThe Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Year Inc: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSharp Literacy Inc: $45,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $42,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc: $41,733 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ecology Center Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMilwaukee Repertory Theater Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc: $37,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNext Act Theatre Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Outing Association: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetArtworks for Milwaukee Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetMeta House Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRuach Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetLiteracy Services of Wisconsin Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSafe & Sound Inc: $27,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Community Center Inc: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOptimist Theatre: $26,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetMilwaukee Chamber Theatre Ltd: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetArts at Large Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetIslands of Brilliance Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Wisconsin Art Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Theatre Inc: $24,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCore El Centro Incorporated: $22,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Milwaukee Science Education Consortium Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 94.

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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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI123.3× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable

How much does Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable give?
Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable reported 63 grants totaling $490,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Education (14%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: John Michael Kohler Arts Center Inc ($230k), United Performing Arts Fund Inc ($140k), Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc ($140k).
Does Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
Where is Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable based?
Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable is based in WI.

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 142 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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