· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Make a Wish Foundation | $3,000 |
| Soaring Spirits International | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +168% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- LHLUKE HOMAN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2021 · $7k · revenue +98%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JOURNEY HOUSE ACTIONS RWANDA INC3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +193%
MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $1k · revenue +168%
Funded once
JOURNEY HOUSE INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -46%- UOUniversity of Wisconsinone grant, 2021 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
Jobswork mke, inc has been formed to help individuals lift themselves out of poverty to self-sufficiency through employment, including by, but not limited to, (a) providing comprehensive job readiness and (b) supporting the development and…
House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…
Sunshine resources of door county enriches lives to nurture and inspire the human spirit with care, compassion, partnership and integrity.
Jw house keeps families together during medical crisis by offering a welcoming home just steps away from the hospital, providing a caring and compassionate environment that inspires hope.
Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…
The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds LUKE HOMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JOURNEY HOUSE ACTIONS RWANDA INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEBRON HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY INC D/B/A HEBRON HOUSING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Soaring Spirits International ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE 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: 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
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 Brzezinski Family Fund 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.