· Private foundation
Duane & Dorothy Bierlein Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LORENZ CHURCH | $14,171 |
| KETTERING UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| FRANKENMUTH INTERNATIONAL AID FOUND | $1,200 |
| SAGINAW HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,200 |
| CROSSROADS COUNSELING MINISTRIES | $1,200 |
| CAMP LU LAY LEA | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FRANKENMUTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against -47% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLST LORENZ CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $76k
- FYFRANKENMUTH YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue -47%
- COCITY OF FRANKENMUTH5× · 2020–2024 · $6k
Funded once
- BFBETHANY FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CHCOVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -48%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To extend and fulfill the mission and ministry of the fredericksburg united methodist church and/or the united methodist church in accordance with the discipline, doctrine, worship and service of the united methodist church.
To receive, administer, and distribute funds to promote and encourage research, scholarship, creative activities, and other applied research and technology at CMU.
To create the exchange of local products and information between growers, producers, and consumers by: supplying fresh local products and goods, educating growers, producers and consumers, keeping our rural heritage alive, inspiring…
The mission of the Franklin County Historical Society is to preserve and promote the history of Franklin County, Washington through educational publications, programs and the operation of the Franklin County Museum.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Endowment fund maintained for church purposes
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
Support Christian activities of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Madison, WI and administer dedicated funds such as scholarship bequests.
The chemung county historical society seeks to deepen our audience's understanding of the past and the role of histroy in our future. to achieve this, the society uses diverse and evolving collections to engage audiences through…
Breaking barriers to ignite the curiosity in all of us.
The foundation for mott community college is a community based charitable organization whose major purpose is to acquire and distribute resources to the students, faculty, and staff of mott community college, as it contributes to…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE FRANKENMUTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COUNSELING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HMONG MISSION SOCIETY ↗
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: Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · The Frankenmuth Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Duane & Dorothy Bierlein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duane & Dorothy Bierlein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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