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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
42
Grants FY2024
43
Organizations funded FY2023
2%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$225,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 48
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$36M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 2% of the organizations Bleser Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2024still arriving42$1.8M5%
FY202343$2.0M2%
FY202242$1.8M5%
FY202148$2.0M23%
FY202044$2.1M73%
FY201722$747kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.5MHealth$2.6MReligion$616kHousing & Shelter$406kHuman Services$400kFood & Nutrition$397kYouth Development$289kRecreation & Sports$255kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Bleser Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marquette University$1,195,00050%
Craig Hospital$675,00050%
Sacred Heart Parish$349,0005n/a
Domestic Abuse Support Center of Shawano County Inc$310,00068%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$225,00020%
Friends of Shawano County Libraries Inc$175,000558%
Shawano Area Food Pantry and Resources Center Inc$126,000431%
Paul's Pantry Inc$125,00050%
Shawano County Humane Society Inc$120,00068%
Shawano Area Matthew 25 Inc$117,50069%
Navarino Nature Center Inc$100,000520%
Green Bay Botanical Garden Inc$90,00051%
Rawhide Inc$90,00060%
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc$50,00050%
Wolf River Habitat for Humanity Inc$28,00062%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc$21,00040%
Shawano County Literacy Council$18,0006n/a
Shawano Jazz Foundation$18,0002n/a
Trees for Tomorrow Inc$15,00051%
Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve Inc$12,00040%
Shawano County Arts Council Inc$10,000510%
Norbertine Community of New Mexico$10,0001n/a
Shawano County Historical Society Inc$5,0001n/a
Forrest Goetsch Charities Inc$5,000181%
Badger Boys State Incorporated$4,80040%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bleser Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarquette University: $1,195,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital: $675,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDomestic Abuse Support Center of Shawano County Inc: $310,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Shawano County Libraries Inc: $175,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetShawano Area Food Pantry and Resources Center Inc: $126,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetPaul's Pantry Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetShawano County Humane Society Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetShawano Area Matthew 25 Inc: $117,500 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetNavarino Nature Center Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetGreen Bay Botanical Garden Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRawhide Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWolf River Habitat for Humanity Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTrees for Tomorrow Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWoodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetShawano County Arts Council Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetForrest Goetsch Charities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetBadger Boys State Incorporated: $4,800 over 4y, 0.4% 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 20.

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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.

Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation IncWI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bleser Family Foundation Inc

How much does Bleser Family Foundation Inc give?
Bleser Family Foundation Inc reported 42 grants totaling $1,757,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bleser Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (22%), Religion (5%).
Who are Bleser Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Marquette University ($1.2M), Craig Hospital ($675k), Sacred Heart Parish ($349k).
Does Bleser Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bleser Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bleser Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc, Wisconsin Public Service Foundation.
Where is Bleser Family Foundation Inc based?
Bleser Family Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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