Wisconsin · 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.
- $516k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Ziegler Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 36 | $496k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $686k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $968k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $1.6M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $637k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $724k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $562k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $549k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation | $1,185,500 | 9 | 5% |
| The American Hospital of Paris Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Uwm Foundation Inc | $775,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $455,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | $362,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $345,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Performing Arts Fund Inc | $285,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Notre Dame School of Milwaukee Inc | $190,000 | 9 | n/a |
| The University School of Milwaukee Corporation | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Duke University | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($588k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ziegler Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · 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
How this is measured
About Ziegler Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Ziegler Family Foundation Inc give?
- Ziegler Family Foundation Inc reported 37 grants totaling $515,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ziegler Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Philanthropy (29%), Health (19%).
- Who are Ziegler Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ($1.2M), The American Hospital of Paris Foundation ($1.0M), The Uwm Foundation Inc ($775k).
- Does Ziegler Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ziegler Family Foundation Inc 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 Ziegler Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Anon Charitable Trust.
- Where is Ziegler Family Foundation Inc based?
- Ziegler Family Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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