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Joan & Fred Brengel Family 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.

$172k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Itemized grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
88%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$155k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 17
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$155k7%
FY202317$158k88%
FY202217$156kn/a
81% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$141kArts & Culture$97kHuman Services$95kYouth Development$47kEducation$45kPhilanthropy$32kRecreation & Sports$5kEnvironment$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($318k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNext Door Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Art Museum Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Performing Arts Fund Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRed Arrow Camp Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPathfinders Milwaukee Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ecology Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc

How much does Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc give?
Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc reported 15 itemized grants totaling $155,000, out of $172,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (9%), Arts & Culture (6%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Next Door Foundation Inc ($45k), Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc ($30k), Milwaukee Public Museum Inc ($15k).
Does Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc based?
Joan & Fred Brengel Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $206k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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