Wisconsin · Private foundation
Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 94
- Grants FY2025
- 104
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 138
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 | 93 | $1.0M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 104 | $1.7M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 130 | $889k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 111 | $1.2M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 132 | $897k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 138 | $892k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $927k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wisconsin Preservation Fund Inc | $600,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Marquette University | $400,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc | $240,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $210,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | $86,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 185 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 96 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation 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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Waukesha County Community Foundation · The Ros Foundation
How this is measured
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About Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
- How much does Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation give?
- Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation reported 94 grants totaling $1,019,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 138 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (20%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ($1.0M), Wisconsin Preservation Fund Inc ($600k), Marquette University ($400k).
- Does Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation based?
- Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation is based in WI.
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