Wisconsin · Private foundation
Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 19 | $65k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $66k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $61k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $59k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $62k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $69k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $68k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $69k | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marcus Lutheran Church | $77,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $77,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $75,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $68,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $22,000 | 8 | n/a |
| First Stage Milwaukee | $15,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens Inc | $13,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Next Door Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Florentine Opera Company Inc | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
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About Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc
- How much does Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc give?
- Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Education (21%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
- Who are Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Marcus Lutheran Church ($78k), Milwaukee Public Museum Inc ($78k), Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc ($76k).
- Does Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation.
- Where is Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc based?
- Charles D Ortgiesen Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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