· Private foundation
Thomas J Bliffert Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Blue Lotus Farm and Retreat Center | $40,000 |
| Pradiya Foundation | $21,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul Society | $9,600 |
| Street Angels Inc | $6,000 |
| Grand Avenue Club | $3,500 |
| Community Projects for Seniors | $3,500 |
| Self-Realization Fellowship | $3,000 |
| California Wildfire Relief Fund | $2,120 |
| River Alliance of WI | $2,000 |
| Christine Center | $2,000 |
| Clean Wisconsin | $2,000 |
| The Shorewood Foundation | $1,500 |
| Penfield Childrens Center | $1,000 |
| Awake Milwaukee Ltd | $1,000 |
| Eisenhower Center | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
BLUE LOTUS FARM & RETREAT CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $137k · revenue +56%
STREET ANGELS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +55%
GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- ACALMA CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +64%
- COCITY OF LAKES WALDORF SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -7%
- FFFrieden's Food Pantryone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Service for disabled adults
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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.
Pinewood - duluth, inc. is a day support services agency providing pre-vocational and vocational services for persons having intellectual and developmental disabilities who are eighteen (18) years of age and older. persons attending…
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Lotus Farm & Retreat Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pradiya Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 BLUE LOTUS FARM & RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRADIYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STREET ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND AVENUE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ALMA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AWAKE LTD ↗
- Who funds CITY OF LAKES WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EISENHOWER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERSITI INC ↗
- Who funds SHOREWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NourishMKE Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Thomas J Bliffert Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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