Wisconsin · 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.
- $34k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $613k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Turek Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $33k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $32k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $27k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $31k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $32k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vision Forward Association Incorporated | $38,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Life Navigators Inc | $21,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc | $10,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Kathy's House Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Meta House Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lotus Legal Clinic Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beyond Vision Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vision Forward Association Incorporated | $38,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Life Navigators Inc | $21,050 | 6 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc | $10,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Kathy's House Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Meta House Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lotus Legal Clinic Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beyond Vision Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Childrens Oncology Services Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Light the Hoan Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Notre Dame School of Milwaukee Inc | $950 | 2 | n/a |
| New Berlin Food Pantry Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Humane Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Misericordia Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Broadscope Disability Services Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Turek Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
About Turek Charitable Trust
- How much does Turek Charitable Trust give?
- Turek Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $33,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Turek Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (61%), Animals (13%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Turek Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Vision Forward Association Incorporated ($38k), Life Navigators Inc ($21k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc ($10k).
- Does Turek Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Turek Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Turek Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Turek Charitable Trust based?
- Turek Charitable Trust is based in WI.
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