Wisconsin · Private foundation
Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust
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.
- $400k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $170,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust 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; $228k 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 | 5 | $400k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $980k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.1M | 64% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $184k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $50k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $150k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc | $770,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $681,663 | 5 | 2% |
| Florentine Opera Company Inc | $489,779 | 6 | 6% |
| Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $260,000 | 2 | 2% |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Imagine MKEInc | $100,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Sculpture Milwaukee Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Milwaukee Film Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Ltd | $29,500 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc | $770,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $681,663 | 5 | 2% |
| Florentine Opera Company Inc | $489,779 | 6 | 6% |
| Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $260,000 | 2 | 2% |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Imagine MKEInc | $100,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Sculpture Milwaukee Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Milwaukee Film Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Ltd | $29,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Lynden Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Renaissance Theaterworks Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Wisconsin Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust 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: Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Baird Foundation Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Andy Nunemaker Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
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About Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust
- How much does Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust give?
- Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust reported 5 grants totaling $400,151 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Education (4%), Health (0%).
- Who are Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milwaukee Ballet Company Inc ($770k), Milwaukee Art Museum Inc ($682k), Florentine Opera Company Inc ($490k).
- Does Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust 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 Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc, Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust based?
- Donald and Donna Baumgartner Charitable Trust is based in WI.
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