· Private foundation
Schoenleber Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WI | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WI | $40,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE | $25,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIV LAW SCHOOL | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC | $20,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PBS | $15,000 |
| JOURNEY 21 INC | $15,000 |
| WUWM 897 MILWAUKEE'S NPR | $15,000 |
| MILW HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +39%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC7× · 2017–2023 · $470k · revenue +7%
- URUWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $405k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- USUW-MADISON SCHOOL OF VET SCIENCEone grant, 2018 · $50k
- MFMPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.
The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.
Making the arts accessible to all
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UWM RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Journey 21 Inc ↗
- Who funds REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS LENDING INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds EISENHOWER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Schoenleber Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schoenleber Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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