Wisconsin · Private foundation
Primum Bonum Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $131k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Primum Bonum Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 40 | $131k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $133k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $139k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $138k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $111k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $100k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $38,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $30,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Paul's Pantry Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Lutheran Child and Family Service Inc | $24,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Collegeready Inc | $21,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Wisconsin Lutheran Institutional Ministries Inc | $19,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Rawhide Inc | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Leaven Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Freedom House Ministries Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wels Lutherans for Life Metro Milwaukee Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($268k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Primum Bonum 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Women's Fund for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Robert and Betty Meyer Family Foundation · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · John and Engrid Meng Inc
How this is measured
About Primum Bonum Inc
- How much does Primum Bonum Inc give?
- Primum Bonum Inc reported 41 grants totaling $130,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Primum Bonum Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Human Services (18%), Housing & Shelter (17%).
- Who are Primum Bonum Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ($39k), Immanuel Lutheran Church ($31k), Paul's Pantry Inc ($30k).
- Does Primum Bonum Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Primum Bonum Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Primum Bonum Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Wisconsin Public Service Foundation, Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Primum Bonum Inc based?
- Primum Bonum Inc is based in WI.
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