· Private foundation
Turek Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vision Forward | $10,000 |
| Froedtert Eye Institute | $5,000 |
| Make A Wish Foundation | $3,850 |
| Life Navigators | $3,600 |
| Zoological Society of Milwaukee | $2,300 |
| Children's Hospital of Wisconsin | $2,000 |
| Catholic Community Foundation | $1,000 |
| St Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish | $1,000 |
| Susan Komen Southeast WI Foundation | $1,000 |
| Meta House | $1,000 |
| Beyond Vision | $1,000 |
| Medical College of Wisconsin Neurosciences | $500 |
| WI Breast Cancer Showhouse | $500 |
| Misericordia | $500 |
| Broadscope Disability Services | $250 |
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, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
LIFE NAVIGATORS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +64%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC4× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +53%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC3× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- MCMedical College Wis Eye Instituteone grant, 2020 · $5k
- JDJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundationone grant, 2024 · $3k
- CHChildrens Hospital Wisconsinone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
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.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Berlin Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 45 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 VISION FORWARD ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT THE HOAN INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VISION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BERLIN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation Under the F Silverman Charitable Tr · Otto Bremer Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Hickory Fund Inc Co Curi Capital LLC · Franks L Wyenberg Charitable Trust · Gardner Foundation
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 Turek Charitable Trust 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.
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.