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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC2× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +29%
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +14%
- FSFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEEone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -2%
- BBBEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC - WISCONSIN CHAPTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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 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…
To advance the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting medical education and health initiatives.
The mission of children's service society of wisconsin ("cssw") is to build, sustain, and enhance a nurturing environment for wisconsin children.
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.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 LSS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE 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 · 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.
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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