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The Brookhill 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAIRY GRAZING APPRENTICESHIP | $650,000 |
| ST AUGSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $455,220 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $443,000 |
| OPEN SKY EDUCATION | $400,000 |
| MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE OF WISCONSIN | $309,380 |
| FAIRSHARE CSA COALITION INC | $215,644 |
| XERCES SOCIETY INC | $175,000 |
| GRASSWORKS INC | $135,150 |
| MARBLESEED | $122,035 |
| BROOKFIELD ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| RIDING WITH ANGELS INC | $100,000 |
| HEARTLAND HEALTH RESEARCH | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $97,478 |
| Individual grant recipient | $93,304 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k 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
- MIMATHEMATICS INSTITUTE OF WISCONSIN CO KATHRYN LEVERENZ7× · 2018–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +33% · 66% of their budget
- OSOPEN SKY EDUCATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +53%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +43%
Funded once
- EEEDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2017 · $400k
- TPTALL PINES CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%
- CFCALS FUND - UW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To develop knowledgeable and effective leaders to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
The cornucopia institute is engages in educational activities supporting the ecological principles and economic wisdom underlying sustainable and organic agriculture. through research and investigations on agriculutral and food issues, the…
World dairy expo is the premier forum for the global dairy community to learn, share, create commerce and showcase competition.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
The wisconsin ffa foundation builds relationships and encourages philanthropy to support and grow agricultural education and ffa.the national ffa organization is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by…
As a learning center, the organic farm school trains new farmers to develop and manage farms focused on ecological, economic and social regeneration - simultaneously offerring opportunities for our community and others to learn about their…
We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.
To advance the success of minnesota dairy farms by lobbying at the state and federal legislatures for laws that stabilize wholesale milk or producer pricing and/or pertain to milk products.
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
The mission of the minnesota agri-growth council is to advocate for minnesota's food and agriculture industry by serving as a unified voice and promoting relationships with allied industries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dairy Grazing Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 55 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 MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE OF WISCONSIN CO KATHRYN LEVERENZ ↗
- Who funds OPEN SKY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF BASIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUSTRATIVE MATHEMATICS ↗
- Who funds DAIRY GRAZING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA DE ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WAUKESHA INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRSHARE CSA COALITION ↗
- Who funds MARBLESEED INC ↗
- Who funds TALL PINES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RIDING WITH ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC FRUIT GROWERS ASSOCITATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN HEALTH 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 · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Brookhill 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.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% 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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