· Private foundation
Frank and Lucille Puncer Foundation Ltd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $395k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEAR WISCONSIN | $60,000 |
| KINSHIP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $50,000 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $50,000 |
| CAPUCHIN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $35,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER MILWAUKEE | $35,000 |
| META HOUSE | $30,000 |
| THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITIES | $30,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MKE | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MKE | $25,000 |
| OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| VISION FORWARD ASSOC | $25,000 |
| MILW YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| ST BAKHITA CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE | $20,000 |
| WIS ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOC | $20,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
29 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
HEAR Wisconsin Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +30%
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +32%- WCWomens Care Center of Milwaukee Corp6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- JFJAFINA FUND FOR VICTIMS OF TERRORone grant, 2023 · $30k
- MAMILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCEINCEone grant, 2021 · $30k
CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -95%
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.
We're a network of community food centers that specializes in food, love, and community. Hunger is a real problem, and access to food should be a fundamental right. No one should be made to feel they're not deserving of nourishment when…
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
The Hope Center seeks out and teams with volunteers from congregations of many faiths.The Center is committed to serving people in need in Waukesha County, Wisconsin through financial assistance, food, child care, clothing and…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…
Making the arts accessible to all
ArtWorks mission is preparing youth for tomorrow by providing transferable career skills through arts internships today. More than 1,450 high school students have completed ArtWorks internships since our inception.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Care Center of Milwaukee Corp ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TBEY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St Bakhita Catholic Worker Inc ↗
- Who funds Nehemiah Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS AT LARGE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI ↗
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 · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank and Lucille Puncer Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Lucille Puncer Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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