· Private foundation
Hugh & Helena Brogan 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of HUGH & HELENA BROGAN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROOTED WI | $5,000 |
| CARENET PREGNACY CENTER OF DANE COU | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY | $4,000 |
| LEARNING ATRIUM | $3,500 |
| EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC | $3,000 |
| RIDGES SANCTUARY INC | $3,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,000 |
| GATHERING WATERS CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| WISCONSIN GREEN FIRE | $2,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK | $1,500 |
| CAMP LUTHER | $1,000 |
| PORTAGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +336%- TRTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +79%
- TETHE EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SASTOUGHTON AREA FOUNDATION APPORTUNIone grant, 2020 · $6k
- AFAPPORTUNITY FUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF LAPHAM PARKone grant, 2023 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
To empower a constellation of environmental organizations working to care for our earth.
To empower people to protect and restore water.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gathering Waters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVANGELICAL CATHOLIC INC ↗
- Who funds GATHERING WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST AUTISM CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LEARNING ATRIUM INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN'S GREEN FIRE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROOTED WI INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEARING ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Hislop Family Foundation · John C Bock Foundation · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hugh & Helena Brogan Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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