Wisconsin · Private foundation
Gladys E Gores Charitable 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.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 16 | $200k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $163k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $140k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $195k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $215k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $132k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc | $77,000 | 6 | 5% |
| HEAR Wisconsin Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Domes Alliance Inc | $62,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Clearing | $57,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Wisconsin Humane Society | $57,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens Inc | $57,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Kinship Mke Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Urban Ecology Center Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Meta House Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc | $77,000 | 6 | 5% |
| HEAR Wisconsin Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Domes Alliance Inc | $62,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Clearing | $57,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Wisconsin Humane Society | $57,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens Inc | $57,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Kinship Mke Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Urban Ecology Center Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Meta House Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Shorewood Foundation Inc | $43,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Mequon Nature Preserve Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Ridges Sanctuary Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pbs Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($485k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Frank and Lucille Puncer Foundation Ltd · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · William Stark Jones Foundation Katherine W Lambert Co-Trustee · The Ros Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc
How this is measured
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About Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd
- How much does Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd give?
- Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd reported 16 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Environment (20%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc ($77k), HEAR Wisconsin Inc ($75k), Milwaukee Domes Alliance Inc ($62k).
- Does Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd based?
- Gladys E Gores Charitable Foundation Ltd is based in WI.
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