· 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,860 |
| The Calumet Club | $500 |
| NKMNSC | $500 |
| Sheboygan Humane Society | $500 |
| Making Spirits Bright | $500 |
| Northside Food Pantry | $500 |
| Weill Center | $500 |
| Safe Harbor | $400 |
| Make A Wish Wisconsin | $360 |
| Wounded Warriors United of Wisconsi | $360 |
| Project Angel Hugs | $360 |
| Aspen Center for Environmental Stud | $360 |
| St Vincent de Paul | $350 |
| DunGood Riders | $250 |
| Toys For Tots | $200 |
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 (FY21–25, $860) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2022–2025 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2020–2023 · $7k
- MSMAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- NFNOURISH FARMS INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +23%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $750
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $650
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.
Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
To feed and care for abandoned or injured animals
Our mission is to provide hospice care to terminally ill patients and their families regardless of their ability to pay. staff is on call 24 hours a day to provide nursing, pastoral and bereavement care.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
Service for disabled adults
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
Flies large scale transports of at-risk shelter pets from disaster areas and overcrowded shelters to brick and mortar shelters where there is empty kennel space and where no local shelter pets are displaced by our flights.
Meals on wheels of loveland and berthoud seeks to nourish and enrich the lives of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals and daily contact with a caring volunteer.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To inspire and empower people to protect america's wild snowscapes
To provide a place of refuge, peace, restoration and hope, dedicated to help people establish intimacy with jesus christ and those they love.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 44 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 MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds DUN-GOOD RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS UNITED OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSHORE HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HUGS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DELAND RECEIVING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Merkel Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
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