Wisconsin · Private foundation
Messmer Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $591k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Messmer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 17 | $78k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $79k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $82k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $36k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $21k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vmp Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 23% |
| All Hands Boatworks Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $20,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Prevent Blindness Wisconsin | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Saint Francis de Sales Seminary | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cathedral Center Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Conservancy for Healing & | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Morning Glory Ministries Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Ltd | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Messmer Foundation Inc 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Olive & Eunice Toussaint Fdn Inv Agy · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Dorothy Inbusch Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · The Ros Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Messmer Foundation Inc
- How much does Messmer Foundation Inc give?
- Messmer Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $78,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Messmer Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Health (16%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Messmer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Vmp Foundation Inc ($30k), All Hands Boatworks Inc ($22k), Milwaukee Rescue Mission ($20k).
- Does Messmer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Messmer Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Messmer Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is Messmer Foundation Inc based?
- Messmer Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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