· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Community Projects for Seniors | $3,500 |
| Grand Avenue Club | $3,500 |
| Self-Realization Fellowship | $3,000 |
| California Wildfire Relief Fund | $2,120 |
| Christine Center | $2,000 |
| Clean Wisconsin | $2,000 |
| River Alliance of WI | $2,000 |
| The Shorewood Foundation | $1,500 |
| Eisenhower Center | $1,000 |
| Awake Milwaukee Ltd | $1,000 |
| Penfield Childrens Center | $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 (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 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 +55% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BLUE LOTUS FARM & RETREAT CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $137k · revenue +56%
STREET ANGELS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +55%- ALAWAKE LTD3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +99%
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 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 CITY OF LAKES WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AWAKE LTD ↗
- Who funds PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EISENHOWER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHOREWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERSITI 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas J Bliffert Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas J Bliffert Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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