· Private foundation
Duane & Dorothy Bluemke Foundation Ltd
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $327k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $360k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $1,300,000 |
| LUTHERAN HOMES OF OCONOMOWOC INC | $100,000 |
| LUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $55,000 |
| HAITI PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BROOM TREE MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| DOXOLOGY | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY | $30,000 |
| LUTHERAN COUNSELING & FAMILY SERVICES OF WI | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $25,000 |
| RED CROSS - SOUTH FL REGION | $25,000 |
| BLESSED SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
74 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +39%
- BTBROOM TREE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +27% · 36% of their budget
LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +5%
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +16%
- LCLAKE COUNTRY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Feed Our Rural Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Haiti Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOM TREE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DOXOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOMES OF OCONOMOWOC INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARGIE'S SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Wauwatosa Savings & Loan Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Otto Bremer Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Duane & Dorothy Bluemke Foundation Ltd funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers Inc — 87% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vero Beach Theatre Guild Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.