Wisconsin · Private foundation
Schoenleber Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $500k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 59% of the organizations Schoenleber Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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 | 25 | $500k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $460k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $450k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $411k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $479k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $412k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $408k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $441k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $505,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $470,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Uwm Research Foundation Inc | $405,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $237,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Marquette University | $216,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Betty Brinn Children's Museum Inc | $165,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $82,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Kathy's House Inc | $81,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Aldo Leopold Nature Center Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($993k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Schoenleber Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Alvin a Marion Birnschein Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · The Ros Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Schoenleber Foundation Inc
- How much does Schoenleber Foundation Inc give?
- Schoenleber Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Schoenleber Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Health (22%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Schoenleber Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin Foundation ($505k), Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc ($470k), Uwm Research Foundation Inc ($405k).
- Does Schoenleber Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Schoenleber Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Schoenleber Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is Schoenleber Foundation Inc based?
- Schoenleber Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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