· Private foundation
The Boerke Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $5,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC | $5,000 |
| NORTHSHORE CLASSICAL ACADEMY LTD | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| LIFE NAVIGATORS INC | $2,500 |
| THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC | $2,500 |
| KRISTINAS KIDS INC | $2,500 |
| PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC | $1,000 |
| NORTH SHORE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ-AUDUBON CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MILWAUKEE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its 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 +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 11 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC4× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +29%
CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC2× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +24%
Funded once
LSS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%- BBBEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC - WISCONSIN CHAPTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SMST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
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 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…
To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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…
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
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.
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
Extraordinary healthcare from the heart - one person at a time.vision: we will set the standard for community-based healthcare that improves the health and quality of life of the people we serve.
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…
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 32 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 LSS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY FORWARD COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHORE CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN TREE GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Milwaukee ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S BOARD OF NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Boerke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Boerke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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