Wisconsin · Private foundation
Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust
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.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,860
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $90k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 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 | 15 | $10k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $8k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $8k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $8k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $6k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Making Spirits Bright Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Nourish Farms Inc | $1,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc | $1,110 | 4 | 0% |
| Dun-Good Riders Inc | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warriors United of Wisconsin Inc | $610 | 2 | 0% |
| Bookworm Gardens Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Eastshore Humane Association Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspen Center for Environmental Studies | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Angel Hugs | $360 | 1 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Making Spirits Bright Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Nourish Farms Inc | $1,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc | $1,110 | 4 | 0% |
| Dun-Good Riders Inc | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warriors United of Wisconsin Inc | $610 | 2 | 0% |
| Bookworm Gardens Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Eastshore Humane Association Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspen Center for Environmental Studies | $360 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Angel Hugs | $360 | 1 | n/a |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Deland Receiving Home Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of Sheboygan County Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Salvatorian Mission Warehouse Inc | $200 | 1 | n/a |
| New Holstein Historical Society Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Sharon S Richardson Community Hospice Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
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How this is measured
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About Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust
- How much does Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust give?
- Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust reported 15 grants totaling $9,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (18%), Human Services (12%), Animals (8%).
- Who are Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Making Spirits Bright Inc ($4k), Nourish Farms Inc ($2k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc ($1k).
- Does Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust 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 Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc, Merkel Foundation Inc.
- Where is Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust based?
- Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust is based in WI.
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