· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Susan Komen Southeast WI Foundation | $1,000 |
| Beyond Vision | $1,000 |
| Meta House | $1,000 |
| St Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish | $1,000 |
| Medical College of Wisconsin Neurosciences | $500 |
| WI Breast Cancer Showhouse | $500 |
| Misericordia | $500 |
| Broadscope Disability Services | $250 |
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, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 45 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 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 LOTUS LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Oncology Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHT THE HOAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BERLIN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Turek Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Turek Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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