Wisconsin · Private foundation
Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $133k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 32
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 28 | $133k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $144k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $149k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $154k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $143k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Camp Anokijig Inc | $115,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $37,500 | 5 | 0% |
| MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC | $35,263 | 5 | 1% |
| Vision Forward Association Incorporated | $30,263 | 3 | 0% |
| Project Angel Hugs | $28,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers Inc | $20,263 | 3 | 0% |
| Prevent Blindness Wisconsin | $20,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hope Center Inc | $18,763 | 3 | 1% |
| HEAR Wisconsin Inc | $18,096 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · The Ros Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation with peer funders
About Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation
- How much does Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation give?
- Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $132,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 32 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (21%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Friends of Camp Anokijig Inc ($115k), Hunger Task Force Inc ($38k), MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC ($35k).
- Does Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation based?
- Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation is based in WI.
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