· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of JOAN & FRED BRENGEL FAMILY 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.
The 15 grants below total $155,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $172,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN, INC. | $30,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| PKD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $5,000 |
| PEARLS FOR TEEN GIRLS | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN | $5,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | $2,000 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $2,000 |
| VERSITI / BLOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| PATHFINDERS | $2,000 |
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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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; $2k 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
- NDNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $90k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN, INC.2× · 2022–2024 · $60k
- MPMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM2× · 2022–2024 · $28k
Funded once
NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -14%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +5%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +0%
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.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…
Improve metro milwaukee as a place to create jobs, invest capital and grow business.
The corporation shall be a civic organization not organized for profit but operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes including in furtherance thereof, the production of an annual festival in the milwaukee metropolitan…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Red Arrow Camp Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 33 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 NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PKD Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA 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: 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
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.