· Private foundation
Francis Kerscher 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 $10k23 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $10,100 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $7,945 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION FOR THE DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY INC | $2,000 |
| RONCALLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ST PATRICK'S | $1,050 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $300 |
| INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME | $300 |
| ST CATHERINE'S HIGH SCHOOL | $200 |
| ALANO SOCIETY | $150 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $150 |
| RACINE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $100 |
| SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI | $100 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
| MANITOWOC PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50 |
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 (FY22–25, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMarquette University9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +46%
- AWASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +19%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME7× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +388%
Funded once
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION FOR DIOCESE OF GREEN BAYone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MLMANITOWOC LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MILWAUKEEone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
Sunshine resources of door county enriches lives to nurture and inspire the human spirit with care, compassion, partnership and integrity.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of older adults through gracious retirement living, spiritual growth, cultural and educational opportunities and health care services.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities
The mission of mercy harvard hospital, inc. (mhh) is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this mission is based on a vision of quality: excellence in patient care; service:…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
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.
The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 54 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 Marquette University ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds SILVER LAKE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds INCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETERS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOES SUBURBAN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALANO SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Francis Kerscher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Francis Kerscher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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