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.

Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable

Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable at a glance

· Private foundation

Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$490k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% 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

02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k47 grants · $238k
$10k–50k16 grants · $253k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$30,000
MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$25,000
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER	$25,000
JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER	$25,000
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER	$20,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND	$17,500
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
WISCONSIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC	$15,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM	$10,000
NEXT DOOR	$10,000
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY	$10,000
FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE PERFORMING ARTS CT	$10,000
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN	$10,000
RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS	$10,000
UNITED WAY	$10,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.5M · 98 repeat orgs$389k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.5M

$364k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

Still filing today

77%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

RENAISSANCE THEATERWORKS INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $77k · revenue +4%
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +5%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +41%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $51k
META HOUSE INC
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +16%
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one grant, 2018 · $25k

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.

Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

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Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc

Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Excellence Inc

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.

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South Milwaukee Performing Arts Council

Support the south milwaukee performing arts center and community arts

Arts & Culture

Montessori Institute of Milwaukee Inc

Montessori institute teaches and develops programs to montessori instructors to educate them as to montessori teaching methods

—

Milwaukee Youth Arts Center Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Monroe Street Arts Center

Monroe street arts center engages a community of learners in exploring the arts and developing the creative self

Arts & Culture

Children's Theater of Madison Inc

To spark imagination and build community through the creation and experience of theater.

—

Milwaukee Community Orchestra Inc

Orchestral program for communit

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

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…

Environment

Madison Youth Choirs Inc

Madison youth choirs, inc. (myc) inspires youth with a choral experience that fosters creativity, reflection, and the exploration of ideas.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee; 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.

04the grantee network

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

95/99

Grantees still filing

57/99

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,585,500Other$1,572,233Education$348,000Human Services$122,500Environment$112,000Youth Development$95,000Health$69,500

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

38report 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.

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