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Ziegler Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.2MPhilanthropy$2.0MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$396kRecreation & Sports$277kHousing & Shelter$126kInternational$114kEnvironment$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$110,000
UWM FOUNDATION INC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$50,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$50,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY$25,000
NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE$20,000
META HOUSE INC$20,000
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND$20,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION$10,000
USGA FOUNDATION$10,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$10,000
MANNA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$10,000
CHENEQUA FOUNDATION$5,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESTCHESTER FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 14%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $5k → 8%ART WITH A HEART INC: $1k → 19%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $1k → 8%ART WITH A HEART INC: $1k → 19%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $1k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
WY
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 60 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
26

Total granted

$5.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+18%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LT
    Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +38%
  • THE UWM FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $775k · revenue +35%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -86%
  • WP
    WISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +140%
  • DC
    DISCALCED CARMELITE FRIARS OF HOLY HILL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
2
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

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…

Education
3
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

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.

Community Improvement
4
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
5
University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation Inc

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…

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
Indiana University 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…

Education
11
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
12
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Performing Arts Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
54/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $1,185,500 · OtherLost Tree Village Charitable FoundationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND (THE GREAT CHARITY CHALLENGE): $320,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND (…MILWAUKEE URBAN STABLES INC: $203,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE URBAN STABLES INCNOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE INC: $190,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE INCGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $91,000 · Other+41 more: $607,300 · Other+41 moreTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $775,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $455,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIO…University of Chicago: $345,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $145,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKE…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $90,000 · Education+7 more: $64,500 · EducationTHE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN HOS…UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $362,000 · PhilanthropyKiawah Cares Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $15,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $32,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $285,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $85,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $21,500 · Arts & CultureManna Scholarship Fund Inc: $95,000 · HealthFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $50,000 · HealthTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · HealthEquestrian Aid Foundation: $13,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,000 · Health+4 more: $22,500 · HealthTALL PINES CONSERVANCY: $69,500 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $4,000 · Environment+2 more: $2,000 · Environment
Other$2,596,800Education$2,009,500International$1,000,000Philanthropy$429,000Arts & Culture$391,500Health$235,500Environment$85,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $1,185,500 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $775,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $455,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $362,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $345,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $285,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $145,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $135,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetManna Scholarship Fund Inc: $95,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $91,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTALL PINES CONSERVANCY: $69,500 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN PRESERVATION FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCHENEQUA FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 22% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY: $43,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUSGA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Youth Impact Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKiawah Cares Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJustWorld International Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Collegiate School: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEquestrian Aid Foundation: $13,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN INMATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHope For The Warriors: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY WORLD LTD: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIFESTRIDERS INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPINE LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budget
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 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 MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Froedtert Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHENEQUA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE CTY ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Urban Youth Impact Inc ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds JustWorld International Inc ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗
  • Who funds Equestrian Aid Foundation ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Anon Charitable TrustEvan & Marion Helfaer…Baird Foundation IncThe Lynde and Harry B…United Way of Greater…Windhover Foundation …Waukesha County Commu…Cedar Street Charitab…Bradley Impact Fund I…Green Bay Packers Fou…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI34.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ziegler Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ziegler Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home