Wisconsin · Private foundation
Brzezinski Family Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Brzezinski Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $4k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $3k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $7k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $8k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $25k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $5k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journey House Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kathy's House Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Luke Homan Foundation Inc | $7,125 | 2 | 7% |
| American Friends of Journey House Actions Rwanda Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hebron House of Hospitality Inc D/B/A Hebron Housing Services | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Soaring Spirits International | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journey House Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kathy's House Inc | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Luke Homan Foundation Inc | $7,125 | 2 | 7% |
| American Friends of Journey House Actions Rwanda Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hebron House of Hospitality Inc D/B/A Hebron Housing Services | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Soaring Spirits International | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $700 | 1 | 0% |
| Next Door Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Kinship Mke Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brzezinski Family Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust
How this is measured
About Brzezinski Family Fund
- How much does Brzezinski Family Fund give?
- Brzezinski Family Fund reported 2 grants totaling $4,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Brzezinski Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Education (21%), Health (20%).
- Who are Brzezinski Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Journey House Inc ($25k), Kathy's House Inc ($16k), Luke Homan Foundation Inc ($7k).
- Does Brzezinski Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brzezinski Family Fund 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 Brzezinski Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation.
- Where is Brzezinski Family Fund based?
- Brzezinski Family Fund is based in WI.
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