· Private foundation
Bleser Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $447k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| SNC SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $225,000 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC FUND | $200,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $120,000 |
| WAISMAN CENTER - UW MADISON | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN | $60,000 |
| NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| SACRED HEART PARISH | $47,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SHAWANO COUNTY LIBRARY | $35,000 |
| SHAWANO AREA FOOD PANTRY AND RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| SAM25 | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
49 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- MUMarquette University5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +24%
- CHCraig Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $675k · revenue +31%
- DADOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SSSNC Scholarship Fundone grant, 2017 · $250k
- SSSNS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2020 · $250k
- HSHSHS ST VINCENT FUNDone grant, 2020 · $150k
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.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
To further improve and maintain the kishwauketoe nature conservancy.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
To educate visitors of all ages about how and where their food is produced and why agriculture is so important to them.
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Abuse Support Center of Shawano County 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 77 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 Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SHAWANO COUNTY LIBRARIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWANO AREA FOOD PANTRY AND RESOURCES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWANO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds NAVARINO NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN 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: Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ruth & Pat Crawford Family Foundation Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · Covantage Cares Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Bleser Family 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.