· Private foundation
The Werner Family 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $492k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $716k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $100,681 |
| SHALOM AUSTIN | $100,000 |
| AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS | $100,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| FROEDTERT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S ALZHEIMER'S MOVEMENT | $40,000 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| THE CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $30,000 |
| DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of those 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 +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 12 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +162%
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $835k · revenue +39%- AAAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS8× · 2018–2025 · $740k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +34%
- HBHOME BASE RED SOX FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $250k
- TETEMPLE EMANUELone grant, 2024 · $200k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
74 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. 74 of the 113 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 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 CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DJCC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLAREMATRIX ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE STREET NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Werner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Werner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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