Illinois · Private foundation
Henke Gordon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $177k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Henke Gordon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 18 | $172k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $154k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $142k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $140k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $139k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $155k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $247,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Marquette University High School | $205,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Nativity Jesuit Academy Inc | $92,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Pius XI High School | $60,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lynn University Inc | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Global Partners Running Waters Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 8% |
| St Marcus Lutheran Church | $11,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Easter Seals Florida Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gesu Parish | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $247,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Marquette University High School | $205,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Nativity Jesuit Academy Inc | $92,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Pius XI High School | $60,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Lynn University Inc | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Global Partners Running Waters Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 8% |
| St Marcus Lutheran Church | $11,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Easter Seals Florida Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gesu Parish | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Next 18 Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The School Sisters of St Francis | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Literacy Services of Wisconsin Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Henke Gordon Family Foundation 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Mary Pauly Lacy Foundation Inc · Sensient Technologies Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc
How this is measured
About Henke Gordon Family Foundation
- How much does Henke Gordon Family Foundation give?
- Henke Gordon Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $176,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Henke Gordon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (88%), Health (3%), Community Improvement (2%).
- Who are Henke Gordon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Marquette University ($247k), Marquette University High School ($205k), Nativity Jesuit Academy Inc ($93k).
- Does Henke Gordon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henke Gordon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Henke Gordon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Henke Gordon Family Foundation based?
- Henke Gordon Family Foundation is based in IL.
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