Wisconsin · Private foundation
Derse Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $159k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $889
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations Derse Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $159k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $591k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $84k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $94k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $56k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Crane Foundation Inc | $196,066 | 6 | 1% |
| Boundless Brilliance Inc | $175,942 | 5 | 89% |
| The Uwm Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Aldo Leopold Foundation Inc | $108,729 | 4 | 5% |
| Ice Age Trail Alliance Inc | $100,100 | 1 | 2% |
| Old World Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $62,185 | 4 | 12% |
| Palm Springs Air Museum Inc | $52,755 | 4 | 1% |
| Lincoln Park Zoological Society | $25,378 | 2 | 0% |
| Bread of Healing Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| THE PRAIRIE ENTHUSIASTs INC | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Derse Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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
About Derse Foundation Inc
- How much does Derse Foundation Inc give?
- Derse Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $158,736 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Derse Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (23%), Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (18%).
- Who are Derse Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: International Crane Foundation Inc ($196k), Boundless Brilliance Inc ($176k), The Uwm Foundation Inc ($125k).
- Does Derse Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Derse Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Derse Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Derse Foundation Inc based?
- Derse Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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