Wisconsin · Private foundation
Schlecht Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $844k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations Schlecht Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k 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 | 34 | $824k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $1.0M | 73% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $903k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $967k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $956k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $483k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operation Fresh Start Inc | $350,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc | $315,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Black Men Coalition Foundation Corporation | $230,000 | 2 | 24% |
| Ceos of Tomorrow Inc | $215,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Urban League of Greater Madison Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Latino Chamber of Commerce of Dane County Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Clean Lakes Alliance Inc | $192,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Groundswell Conservancy Inc | $190,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Maydm Inc | $170,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Neighborhood Food Solutions Inc | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Schlecht Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Widen Family Foundation Inc · Madison Investments Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Schlecht Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Schlecht Family Foundation Inc give?
- Schlecht Family Foundation Inc reported 35 grants totaling $843,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Schlecht Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Education (16%), Employment (12%).
- Who are Schlecht Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Operation Fresh Start Inc ($350k), Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc ($315k), Black Men Coalition Foundation Corporation ($230k).
- Does Schlecht Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schlecht Family Foundation Inc 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 Schlecht Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Community Foundation, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, The Evjue Foundation Inc.
- Where is Schlecht Family Foundation Inc based?
- Schlecht Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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