· Private foundation
The Costigan Family Foundation
Its FY2018 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 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUMEN CHRISTI ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - JENNIFER BUS | $100,000 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH | $30,000 |
| GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST | $15,000 |
| UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC | $10,000 |
| GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST | $10,000 |
| THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC | $10,000 |
| VIPER NATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $1,500 |
| KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Costigan Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +35% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- USUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +91%
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +54%
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- MEMILWAUKEE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -52%
- EGEN GEDI RETREAT INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -2% · 43% of their budget
- SHSACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTONone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
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University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
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Pavir's mission is advancing veterans and public health through innovative research. pavir works with more than 100 principal investigators and 200 research staff to support basic science, clinical and health services research to realize…
Our mission is to improve human health by conducting, enabling and translating innovative, interdisciplinary biomedical research in partnership with the university of wisconsin-madison and others, by leveraging our collective strength in…
Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 MILWAUKEE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds EN GEDI RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VIPER NATION ACADEMIC BOOSTER ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds VILLA ST JOSEPH OF BADEN INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS FROM WISCONSIN LTD ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Costigan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Costigan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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