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The Boerke Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Human Services$100kHealth$49kEducation$24kReligion$16kArts & Culture$7kAnimals$6kInternational$5kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LSS FOUNDATION INC$100,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC$40,000
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH$5,000
CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC$5,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED: $1k → 14%OUR LADY OF MERCY PARISH: $500 → 11%KRISTINAS KIDS INC: $3k → 5%MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED: $1k → 11%ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE: $7k → 17%WOMANS BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $500 → 14%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $1k → 17%ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $500 → 17%WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 17%WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $2k → 17%FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ-AUDUBON CENTER INC: $1k → 17%LIFE NAVIGATORS INC: $3k → 17%CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $5k → 17%BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC - WISCONSIN CHAPTER: $5k → 17%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $3k → 17%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $2k → 17%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $2k → 17%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1k → 17%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1k → 17%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $1k → 17%FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE INC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $5k → 17%CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC: $5k → 17%ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 17%LSS FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$37k · 5 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$37k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +29%
  • WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +14%
  • FS
    FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -2%
  • BB
    BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC - WISCONSIN CHAPTER
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Specialty Group Inc

The mission of children's specialty group, inc. ("csg") is to provide the highest quality specialty health care services to infants, children and adolescents and to advance the effectiveness of health care through education and the…

Health
2
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

3
Children's Medical Group Inc

To provide quality, accessible primary health care services to all children in our community, advocate for the well-being of all children, educate children, families, health care professionals and our community regarding the health of…

Health
4
Center for Healthcare Careers of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…

Health
5
My Choice Wisconsin Inc

We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.

Health
6
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
7
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

8
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
9
Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation Inc

To advance the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting medical education and health initiatives.

10
Children's Service Society of Wisconsin

The mission of children's service society of wisconsin ("cssw") is to build, sustain, and enhance a nurturing environment for wisconsin children.

11
Milwaukee Women Inc

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.

Education
12
Wisconsin Medical Credit Union

Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Mooring Programs Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LSS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterLSS FOUNDATION INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF W…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF W…+1 more — $500 · HealthCURSILLO IN CHRISTIANITY OF THE ARC HDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE — $10,000 · OtherCURSILLO IN CHR…BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC - WISCONSIN CHAPTER — $5,000 · OtherBEST BUDDIES IN…ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherST MARCUS LUTHE…KRISTINAS KIDS INC — $2,500 · OtherKRISTINAS KIDS …LIFE NAVIGATORS INC — $2,500 · OtherLIFE NAVIGATORS…THE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED — $1,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 · Other+2 more — $1,000 · OtherCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC — $10,000 · EducationCITY FORWAR…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $9,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL…THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION — $2,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $6,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC — $1,000 · Environment
Housing & Shelter$100,000Health$45,500Other$28,000Education$21,000Arts & Culture$6,500Animals$6,000Environment$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLSS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE NAVIGATORS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Wilson Family Foundation Inc · Telly Foundation Ltd · Anon Charitable Trust · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 The Boerke Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Boerke Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Boerke Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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