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The Werner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $793k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $142,630 |
| AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS | $100,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEM DAVID ADOM | $50,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $37,500 |
| FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| WOMEN'S ALZHEIMER'S MOVEMENT-CLEVELAND CLINIC | $30,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $30,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 18% of those 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 +40% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $454k 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +132%
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION7× · 2017–2024 · $734k · revenue +39%- AAAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS7× · 2018–2024 · $640k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +34%
- HBHOME BASE RED SOX FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
- LALOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -63%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 101 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DJCC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLAREMATRIX ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE STREET NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
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: Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Gardner Foundation · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Anon Charitable Trust · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Telly Foundation Ltd
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 Werner Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 0% 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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