Wisconsin · Private foundation
Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $268k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 15 | $268k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $228k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $228k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $283k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $225k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $190k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $355,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Autism Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 64% |
| Animal Aid Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 5% |
| The Food Pantry Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Family Promise of Ozaukee County | $47,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ozaukee Family Services Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Advocates of Ozaukee Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| LArche Portland | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Mels Charities Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portal Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquette University | $355,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Autism Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 64% |
| Animal Aid Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 5% |
| The Food Pantry Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Family Promise of Ozaukee County | $47,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ozaukee Family Services Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Advocates of Ozaukee Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| LArche Portland | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Mels Charities Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portal Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Oregon Food Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Works of Mercy Ministry Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Northern Ozaukee Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($616k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 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.
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How this is measured
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About Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc
- How much does Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc give?
- Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $267,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (12%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Marquette University ($355k), Friends of Autism Inc ($85k), Animal Aid Inc ($70k).
- Does Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc based?
- Ralph Huiras Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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