· Private foundation
James and Yvonne Ziemer Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of James and Yvonne Ziemer Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year James and Yvonne Ziemer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $105k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $75,000 |
| UW-LACROSSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UW-MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHEROKEE RANCH & CASTLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| JDRF | $1,500 |
| DAREN M HIDALGO MEMORIAL FUND | $1,200 |
| FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCherokee Ranch & Castle4× · 2019–2023 · $27k · revenue +116%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +12%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- JRJDRF RIDE TO CUREone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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 CEDAR STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Cherokee Ranch & Castle ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James and Yvonne Ziemer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Yvonne Ziemer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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