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Jean & Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation at a glance

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Jean & Thomas Harbeck 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.

$205k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$274kInternational$135kHousing & Shelter$59kHuman Services$42kHealth$31kEnvironment$25kAnimals$21kPhilanthropy$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISTORIC HAY MARKET MILWAUKEE$150,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$7,500
MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION$6,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$6,000
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$5,000
THE SOCIETY TO PRESERVA THE MILLVALE MURALS OF MAXO VANKA$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,500
FRIEND OF THE DOMES$2,500
JUBILATE CHORALE$2,500
ANTARCTIC HERITAGE TRUST$2,500
UPAFORG$1,200
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
ASWP$1,000
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE FOR JUSTICE: $1k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $1k → 15%GO Campaign: $500 → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $500 → 15%GO Campaign: $500 → 14%ANNIECANNONS: $535 → 10%Place of Hope: $1k → 11%Place of Hope: $1k → 11%Pathfinders: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$422k · 66 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
47

Total granted

$422k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+23%

Still filing today

65%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +98%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +20%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -14%
  • WH
    WINDBER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +105%
  • TW
    The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +16%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
4
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
5
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
6
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
7
World Coffee Research

World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…

International
8
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
11
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
12
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Tigerlion Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 123 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
51/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee IncMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $29,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INCMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $27,448 · Arts & Culture+11 moreMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $55,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONJUBILATE CHORALE INC: $22,000 · OtherJUBILATE CHORALE INCSalvation Army: $21,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyANTARCTIC HERITAGE TRUST: $14,000 · OtherANTARCTIC HERITAGE TRUSTHope Center Inc: $8,000 · OtherMSO: $7,500 · Other+63 more: $86,757 · Other+63 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $52,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…Save The Children Federation Inc: $23,250 · InternationalSave The Children Fed…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PE…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION…DIRECT RELIEF: $5,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,250 · International+13 more: $20,250 · International+13 moreLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $7,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthPROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 · HealthTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthECO-SOAP BANK: $2,250 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · HealthFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $1,100 · HealthAUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA: $13,000 · EnvironmentWAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentTALL PINES CONSERVANCY: $1,750 · EnvironmentCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · AnimalsTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsHUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INC: $250 · Animals
Arts & Culture$242,948Other$214,257International$122,750Health$27,600Environment$16,750Philanthropy$9,000Animals$7,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $52,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $23,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA: $13,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHope Center Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $6,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $4,735 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $3,948 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWATER WELLS FOR AFRICA: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWater Underground: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetECO-SOAP BANK: $2,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTALL PINES CONSERVANCY: $1,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAUKESHA FREE CLINIC INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGo Campaign: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope for Justice Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY TO PRESERVE THE MILLVALE MURALS OF MAXO VANKA ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WINDBER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
  • Who funds PROHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds WATER WELLS FOR AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE DOMES ALLIANCE 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.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Waukesha County Commu…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Windhover Foundation …Green Bay Packers Fou…STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Maihaugen Foundation …Emil Ewald Family Fou…
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI36.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Windhover Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 · Emil Ewald Family Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jean & Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean & Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Jean & Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jean & Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 123 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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