Wisconsin · Private foundation
Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $209k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 47
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 44 | $209k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $152k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $156k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $165k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $201k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $120,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Inc | $55,800 | 4 | 1% |
| Next Act Theatre Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc | $42,535 | 6 | 0% |
| Urban Ecology Center Inc | $36,702 | 6 | 0% |
| Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc | $27,237 | 4 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| River Revitalization Foundation Inc | $14,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Securefutures Foundation Inc | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorothy Inbusch 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc
- How much does Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc give?
- Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $209,412 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Environment (14%), Health (10%).
- Who are Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc ($121k), Milwaukee Public Museum Inc ($110k), Friends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Inc ($56k).
- Does Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc based?
- Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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