· Private foundation
Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $901k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $316k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING | $316,223 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE | $189,418 |
| SERENITY INNS INC | $184,473 |
| LUTHER SEMINARY | $168,000 |
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $156,750 |
| FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN | $150,500 |
| GRACE IN ACTION - MLI | $150,500 |
| LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES | $131,000 |
| EBENEZER STONE MINISTRIES INC | $127,376 |
| THE LUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC | $110,000 |
| VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES | $105,000 |
| CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $101,000 |
| PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $94,500 |
| JOBSWORK MKE (FORMERLY MILWAUKEE COMM BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE) | $91,635 |
| Individual grant recipient | $91,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +108%
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $754k · revenue +56%
SERENITY INNS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $621k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- GIGRACE IN ACTION - MINISTRY LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $101k
- MOMT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $100k
- ULUNITY LUTHERAN CHURCH INCone grant, 2020 · $69k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
The lutheran home, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
Supporting the tax exempt purpose of lutheran social services of wisconsin and upper michigan, inc.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
To provide healthcare and other related services for aging persons regardless of the ability of residents to pay for these services.
God is touching the people we serve by giving them hope through godly teaching, mentoring, and hands-on practical opportunities such as employment.
Our mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Oakwood is called to serve a thriving community where seniors live with dignity, connection, and purpose.
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lutheran Home Association and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 196 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SERENITY INNS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VIBRANT FAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RETURN INC ↗
- Who funds Ebenezer Stone Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds PASTORAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INMATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST ONE MORE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds JOBSWORK MKE INC ↗
- Who funds Grace in Action ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds ELCA OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Chaplains in Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Stimac Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Antioch Foundation 1015002041 · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Theodore W Batterman Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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