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Gebhardt Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $25,000 |
| DOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $15,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| MEQUON - THIENSVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| EPHRIAM FOUNDATION HERITAGE FUND INC | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN SKY THEATER | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCH DIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| ADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +5%- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +40%
- EHEPHRAIM HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- MEMEQUONTHIENSVILLE EDUCATIONAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $15k
- MMMILLER MARRIOTT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- EFEPHRAIM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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…
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
To promote educational excellence and strengthen community participation in milwaukee public schools.
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
The mission of the greater green bay community foundation, inc. is to inspire and encourage charitable giving in northeast wisconsin by connecting caring people with solutions that strengthen our community.
Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hartford Rotary Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 43 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 UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds EPHRAIM HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEQUON-THIENSVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EPHRAIM FOUNDATION HERITAGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD ROTARY FOUNDATION 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: Door County Community Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gebhardt Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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