Wisconsin · Private foundation
Plunkett Family Foundation
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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,950
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $191k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Plunkett Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 5 | $26k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $22k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $42k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $85k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $87k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $94k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $85k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $80k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $227,920 | 9 | 0% |
| Florentine Opera Company Inc | $66,950 | 6 | 2% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women's Fund of Greater Milwaukee Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $25,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cedar Lake Yacht Club | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Filling in the Blanks Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $4,900 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Plunkett Family Foundation 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Gardner Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · National Center for Housing Management Inc · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd
How this is measured
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About Plunkett Family Foundation
- How much does Plunkett Family Foundation give?
- Plunkett Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $27,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Plunkett Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Education (10%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Plunkett Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc ($228k), Florentine Opera Company Inc ($67k), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($50k).
- Does Plunkett Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Plunkett Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Plunkett Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Plunkett Family Foundation based?
- Plunkett Family Foundation is based in WI.
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