· Private foundation
Ziegler Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $110,000 |
| UWM FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| META HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $20,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $20,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE | $20,000 |
| USGA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MANNA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| CHENEQUA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- LTLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +38%
THE UWM FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $775k · revenue +35%- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -86%
- WPWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +140%
- DCDISCALCED CARMELITE FRIARS OF HOLY HILL INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation (UWMF) supports the teaching, research and service missions of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health by promoting the delivery of excellent and innovative patient care…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Support of miami university
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The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Performing Arts Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Generosity Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 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. 77 of the 89 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 Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Manna Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds TALL PINES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds META HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHENEQUA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
- Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Youth Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds JustWorld International Inc ↗
- Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Equestrian Aid Foundation ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
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 · Anon Charitable Trust · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Windhover Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Green Bay Packers 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 Ziegler Family 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.
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% 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.