· Private foundation
The Michael & Lois Wilke 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN LEGION MCLEOD POST NO 47 | $15,000 |
| NORFOLK FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
| OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BRIGGS & BARRETT PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOPECHEST | $3,780 |
| RCS TRIUMPH INC | $2,500 |
| FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND | $2,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA | $500 |
| NAUW (NORFOLK AREA UNITED WAY) | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE 360 | $200 |
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 (FY21–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NFNORFOLK FAMILY YMCA3× · 2022–2025 · $30k
- BBBriggs & Barrett Project5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +59%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TMTeamMates Mentoring Programone grant, 2024 · $100k
- LLLEIGH LEGACY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SCStanton County Veterans Memorial Parkone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Our mission at the Sauk Valley Foodbank is to help alleviate food insecurity in the Sauk Valley area.
To benefit the communitys economic vitality by identifying, developing and funding projects which will grow and sustain the Stanton, Iowa community.
Fight hunger in our community by providing financial, logistic, strategic, and food support to our network of local emergency food pantries.
End hunger together.
The foundation's mission is to seek, receive and administer donations and gifts for the sole benfit of valley county health system. our number one priority is enhancing and sustaining high-quality healthcare in central nebraska.
UNUM International is a Christian nonprofit who seeks to address, educate, coordinate, and provide aid and relief to eradicate chronic malnutrition, physical and spiritual hunger, and illiteracy in Guatemala.
The nebraska cancer specialists (ncs) hope foundation is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the lives of individuals and families in the community and the surrounding areas who are impacted by cancer treatment.
To develop transformational relationships with the people of Uganda. To partner in the development of communities that would promote spiritual, physical and socio-economical transformation.
The food bank of lincoln, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized to meet the emergency food needs for the sixteen counties it serves in southeast nebraska.the food bank of lincoln serves as a key organization for receiving, inspecting,…
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Our mission is to help Veterans and First Responders in the United States, their spouses and children, whose unfortunate situations have left them suffering physically and mentally, gain access to special veterans' programs and to educate…
To build a hospital, surgical center and clinics in Uganda to treat children.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 Briggs & Barrett Project ↗
- Who funds Stanton County Veterans Memorial Park ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Global Orphan Hope ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION MCLEOD POST NO 47 ↗
- Who funds Stanton Community Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds Children's HopeChest ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEBRASKA INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE 360 ↗
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: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Michael & Lois Wilke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael & Lois Wilke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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