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Luke Homan Foundation Inc

Fund college scholarships for brookfield central high school students and make grants to other public charities

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$86kHuman Services$48kArts & Culture$43kRecreation & Sports$36kYouth Development$20kEducation$17kFood & Nutrition$11kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $57,545, the rows itemized in this filing. The $140,445 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,900 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$508k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UWM FOUNDATION$12,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC WI CHAPTER$11,000
VARIETY CLUB OF WI$8,425
SOBAT SPECIAL OLYMPICS$8,000
MAKE -A-WISH WISCONSIN$7,000
WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOC$6,000
COMMUNITY PROJECTS FOR SENIORS$5,120
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE MCGUIRE FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $8k → 10%FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WI: $6k → 17%CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%WAUKESHA COUNTY COMM FDN: $10k → 5%SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $8k → 10%FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WI: $6k → 17%CHICAGO BLACKHAWK FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PALMER'S TENT EVENT CHARITIES: $10k → 5%UW FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%UWM FOUNDATION: $12k → 17%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOC: $6k → 5%USO OF WISCONSIN: $8k → 17%SOBAT SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $8k → 5%COMMUNITY PROJECTS FOR SENIORS: $5k → 17%VARIETY CLUB OF WI: $16k → 5%MAKE -A-WISH WISCONSIN: $7k → 17%VARIETY CLUB OF WI: $10k → 5%MAKE -A-WISH WISCONSIN: $7k → 17%VARIETY CLUB OF WI: $9k → 5%MAKE -A-WISH WISCONSIN: $7k → 17%VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $9k → 5%MAKE -A-WISH WISCONSIN: $6k → 17%VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $9k → 5%MAKE -A-WISH WISCONSIN: $6k → 17%VARIETY CLUB OF WI: $8k → 5%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC WI CHAPTER: $22k → 17%VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $8k → 5%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC WI CHAPTER: $11k → 17%WI STATE FAIR PARK FOUNDATION: $6k → 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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$180k · 7 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$180k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

43%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +16%
  • CB
    Chicago Blackhawks Foundation
    2× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +120%
  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • MF
    MCGUIRE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • WC
    WAUKESHA COUNTY COMM FDN
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…

Education
2
Medical Society of Milwaukee Foundation Inc
Health
3
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment
7
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Foundation Inc

To be a proactive leader in helping shape and refine the vision of excellence of the university of wisconsin - oshkosh through: raising the awareness of the need for private support for educational priorities; building relationships to…

Education
8
The Wisconsin Ffa Foundation Inc

The wisconsin ffa foundation builds relationships and encourages philanthropy to support and grow agricultural education and ffa.the national ffa organization is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by…

Youth Development
9
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
10
Uwm At Waukesha Foundation Inc

To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus

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11
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation Inc

The wisconsin broadcasters association foundation contribution to broadcasting in wisconsin encompasses a strategic, long term vision for enhancing, promoting and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of…

Arts & Culture
12
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIETY CLUB OF WI: $42,745 · OtherVARIETY CLUB OF WIALZHEIMER'S ASSOC WI CHAPTER: $33,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOC WI CHAPTERVARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $25,000 · OtherVARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITIESSPECIAL OLYMPICS: $15,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICSMCGUIRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherMCGUIRE FOUNDATION INCWAUKESHA COUNTY COMM FDN: $10,000 · OtherWAUKESHA COUNTY COMM FDNPALMER'S TENT EVENT CHARITIES: $10,000 · OtherPALMER'S TENT EVENT CHARITIESUSO WISCONSIN INC: $8,000 · OtherSOBAT SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $8,000 · Other+1 more: $5,120 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $33,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATIO…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUND…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE &…Chicago Blackhawks Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5,250 · EducationWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentWisconsin State Fair Park Foundation: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $11,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$167,365Health$53,000Philanthropy$20,000Education$17,250Youth Development$12,000Food & Nutrition$11,000

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 budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS ASSOCIATI: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Luke Homan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Luke Homan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Luke Homan Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Luke Homan Foundation Inc 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 19 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 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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