· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOPEN SKY EDUCATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +53%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +43%
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +637%
Funded once
- EEEDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2017 · $400k
- TPTALL PINES CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%
- CFCALS FUND - UW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Wisconsin Philharmonic Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brookhill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brookhill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
- Sterling College: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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