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Gebhardt Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$566kEducation$140kPhilanthropy$102kYouth Development$56kRecreation & Sports$38kCivil Rights$13kReligion$10kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $149k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$25,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND$15,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$12,500
MEQUON - THIENSVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$11,000
EPHRIAM FOUNDATION HERITAGE FUND INC$10,000
NORTHERN SKY THEATER$10,000
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$10,000
BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC$10,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCH DIOCESE OF CHICAGO$5,000
ADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%ADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$867k · 18 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
16

Total granted

$867k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+3%

Still filing today

39%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +8%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +40%
  • EH
    EPHRAIM HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • ME
    MEQUONTHIENSVILLE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • EF
    EPHRAIM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +21%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

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…

Education
3
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
4
Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
6
Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
8
University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc

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…

Education
9
Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation

To promote educational excellence and strengthen community participation in milwaukee public schools.

Philanthropy
10
Madison Community Foundation

Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.

Philanthropy
11
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
12
Milwaukee Public Museum Endowment Fund

Supporting the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the milwaukee public museum.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPeninsula Players: $75,000 · OtherPeninsula PlayersBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $37,636 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBUNITED WAY: $35,000 · OtherUNITED WAYBIRCH CREEK MUSIC CENTER: $35,000 · OtherBIRCH CREEK MUSIC CENTERDOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherDOOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE: $25,000 · OtherPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATREMEQUONTHIENSVILLE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,000 · OtherOZAUKEE ICE CENTER: $15,000 · Other+17 more: $93,400 · Other+17 moreUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $136,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INCNORTHERN SKY THEATER INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN SKY THEATER INCMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCEPHRAIM HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureEPHRAIM HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $77,500 · EducationTHE MEDICAL …MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $24,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE SC…MEQUON-THIENSVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EducationMEQUON-THIEN…+1 more: $500 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentEPHRAIM FOUNDATION HERITAGE FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Human Services
Other$446,036Arts & Culture$431,000Education$113,000Youth Development$15,000Philanthropy$12,000Health$5,000Human Services$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $136,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN SKY THEATER INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $77,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEPHRAIM HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEQUON-THIENSVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPHRAIM FOUNDATION HERITAGE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetADMIRALS POWER PLAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $3,400 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOZAUKEE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Door County Community…Greater Milwaukee Fou…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Door County Community Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gebhardt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gebhardt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gebhardt Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gebhardt Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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