Wisconsin · Private foundation
John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $401k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $84,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $341k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $344k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $427k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $403k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $334k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $370k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $385k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $352k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southeastern Community College Foundation | $257,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Burlington Area Homeless Shelter | $143,500 | 9 | 17% |
| Burlington Area YMCA Inc | $100,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Burlington Notre Dame Foundation | $95,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Junior Achievement of the Heartland Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Transitions DMC Inc | $73,500 | 5 | 9% |
| Burlington STEM Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Southeast Iowa Symphony Association Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra | $70,000 | 8 | 5% |
| City Hope Foundation | $70,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Young House Family Services Inc | $47,500 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Carl A Nelson Charitable Foundation · Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center Inc · Kings Daughters Home for Old People · Winegard Foundation · Jani-Dhuna Foundation · Burlington W Burlington Area United Way · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust
- How much does John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust give?
- John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust reported 17 grants totaling $401,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Arts & Culture (18%), Education (16%).
- Who are John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southeastern Community College Foundation ($257k), Burlington Area Homeless Shelter ($144k), Burlington Area YMCA Inc ($100k).
- Does John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harry & Virginia Murray Foundation, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Carl A Nelson Charitable Foundation.
- Where is John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust based?
- John H Witte Jr Foundation Trust is based in WI.
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