Wisconsin · Private foundation
Burnstad Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $151k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Burnstad Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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 | 15 | $151k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $150k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $220k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $100k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $100k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $100k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $100k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $100k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomah Memorial Hospital | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chasing Daylight Animal Shelter Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Tomah Firefighters Association | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Area Community Theater Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 7% |
| School District of la Crosse | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Families First of Monroe County Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Caring Closet Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Viterbo University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($686k), not named here.
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: Bernadette M Otto Charitable Foundation · Frank G Andres Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Burnstad Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Burnstad Family Foundation Inc give?
- Burnstad Family Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $150,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Burnstad Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (19%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Burnstad Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tomah Memorial Hospital ($150k), Chasing Daylight Animal Shelter Inc ($115k), Tomah Firefighters Association ($30k).
- Does Burnstad Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Burnstad 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 Burnstad Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bernadette M Otto Charitable Foundation, Frank G Andres Charitable Trust.
- Where is Burnstad Family Foundation Inc based?
- Burnstad Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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