· Private foundation
The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $570k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $695,000 |
| RANDOM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $350,000 |
| OOSTBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT | $164,270 |
| PORT WASHINGTON-SAUKVILLE SCHOOLS | $145,000 |
| NORTHERN OZAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $96,000 |
| ELKHART LAKE GLENBEULAH SCHOOL | $91,871 |
| DIVINE SAVIOR CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $73,076 |
| NORTHERN OZAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $44,000 |
| OOSTBERG SCHOOL DISTRICT | $44,000 |
| RANDOM LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $44,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +60% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +80%
RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC5× · 2018–2023 · $238k · revenue +8%
LAKESHORE NATURAL RESOURCE PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2021–2023 · $162k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- OCOOSTBERG CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $459k
- LULAKELAND UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $56k · revenue -12%
- BOBells of St Mary's Incone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -88%
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 protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 48 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 OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE NATURAL RESOURCE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BROUGHTON ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RESTORING LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds Bells of St Mary's Inc ↗
- Who funds Mequon Nature Preserve Inc ↗
- Who funds CG AT PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OZAUKEE COUNTY FARM BUREAU COOPERAT ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LUXEMBOURG AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAUKVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Cedarburg Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bruce Krier Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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