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Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$561k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
115
Grants FY2025
124
Organizations funded FY2024
53%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$168,855
Organizations funded a year
89 to 151
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
20
Total assets, FY2025
$4.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving108$567k44%
FY2024124$512k53%
FY2023115$581k57%
FY202289$584k56%
FY2021151$650kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$952kPhilanthropy$602kEducation$469kFood & Nutrition$345kHuman Services$206kYouth Development$83kEnvironment$47kHousing & Shelter$37kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 267 grantees
All grantees of Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc$482,01350%
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc$400,00030%
Hunger Task Force Inc$323,23450%
Sojourner Family Peace Center Inc$94,70050%
United Community Center Inc$90,83550%
All-In Milwaukee Inc$50,00011%
Next Door Foundation Inc$46,60050%
Milwaukee School of Engineering$45,13750%
Urban Ecology Center Inc$40,25050%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc$15,00033%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$15,00010%
Triangle Education Foundation$15,00020%
Pennsylvania State University$12,3505n/a
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$12,2134n/a
University of California Santa Barbara$12,0003n/a
Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc$12,00030%
Milwaukee Public Museum Inc$11,50010%
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee$9,70020%
Carthage College$8,00050%
Bryant & Stratton College Inc$8,00040%
Olivet Nazarene University$8,00030%
Azusa Pacific University$8,00030%
The Guest House of Milwaukee Inc$7,50020%
Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County$6,90830%
University of la Verne$6,00030%
Saint Xavier University$6,00030%
Bridgewater College$6,00030%
Campbell University$6,00010%
Oasis Church Inc$5,3602n/a
Marquette University$4,75040%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc$4,65030%
Living Lands & Waters$4,50030%
Saginaw Valley State University$4,0001n/a
Readers 2 Leaders$4,00040%
Florida Southern College$4,00020%
Western Michigan University$4,0002n/a
Just One More Ministry Inc$3,50040%
Avery Coonley School$3,25020%
Robert a Toigo Foundation$3,25030%
Cursillo in Christianity of the Arc Hdiocese of Milwaukee$3,0003n/a
Northwestern University$2,75040%
Neighborhood Art House$2,6002n/a
Saint Thomas More High School Inc$2,5002n/a
Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee Inc$2,48520%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,30020%
Special Spaces Inc$2,18320%
Kinship Mke Inc$2,05010%
Rawhide Inc$2,00010%
Skylight Music Theatre Corp$2,00010%
Light of Life Ministries Inc$2,00010%
United Performing Arts Fund Inc$2,00040%
Keuka College$2,00010%
Columbia College Chicago$2,00010%
University of Wisconsin$2,0001n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$2,0001n/a
Kenosha Achievement Center Inc$1,85040%
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre$1,50010%
Black Arts Mke Inc$1,45030%
Bridges to a New Day Nfp$1,40030%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,35020%
St John Vianney Catholic Church$1,3252n/a
The Salvation Army$1,3083n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,28040%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$1,20020%
Toy Bank of Greater Paso Robles Inc$1,0855n/a
All Dulles Area Muslim Society$1,0601n/a
Breakthrough T1d$1,05030%
The Gow School$1,00020%
The Washington County Humane Society Inc$1,00010%
Milwaukee Downtown Inc$1,00010%
La Blueprint$1,000220%
Summit Educational Association Inc$1,00010%
Ablelight Inc$1,00010%
The Cove School Inc$1,00010%
Canticle Court Inc$1,00020%
St Joan of Arc Congregation$1,0002n/a
St Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc$1,00010%
B Desh Foundation$1,00010%
UNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc$1,00010%
Equal Justice Initiative$90010%
Eisenhower Center Inc$80010%
The Midwife Foundation Inc$75010%
Elmbrook Education Foundation Inc$75010%
West Ridge Fire Department$66030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$60140%
Vision Forward Association Incorporated$60010%
Phillips Exeter Academy$55520%
Sojourner Foundation$55010%
Michigan Tech Fund$55030%
Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inc$55010%
Compassion International Incorporated$5162n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$51310%
The Prairie School Inc$50830%
American Heart Association Inc$50240%
Open Arms Pregnancy Clinic$50010%
The Zakat Foundation of America$50010%
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc$50020%
National Immigration Law Center$50010%
Nicolet High School Foundation Inc$50010%
Glendale River Hills School District Foundation Inc$5002n/a
Seeds of Love$50011%
University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc$5001n/a
Calvin University$50010%
Mr Bobs Under the Bridge Inc$5001n/a
Full Shelf Food Pantry Inc$50010%
Lone Oak Isd Education Foundation$5001n/a
Care Net$50010%
True Skool Inc$50020%
St Rose of Lima Catholic School$5001n/a
The Theatre of Western Springs$50020%
San Luis Obispo Classical Academy$50020%
Friends of Havenwoods Inc$5002n/a
Leader Dogs for the Blind$48920%
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Inc$45020%
Special Olympics Illinois$45020%
Play for Pink Inc$45020%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Inc$40010%
Milestones Programs for Children Inc$40010%
Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc$40030%
The Uw-Platteville Foundation and Alumni Association Inc$40010%
Asbury Woods Partnership Inc$40040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$40010%
Food for the Poor Inc$40010%
Nami Southeast Wisconsin Inc$38310%
International Rescue Committee INC$37520%
American Cancer Society Inc$36020%
Tori's Angels Foundation Inc$35030%
Journey House Inc$35010%
St Joseph Catholic Academy$3504n/a
Wisconsibs Inc$35040%
Friends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Inc$35030%
Salvation Army$3252n/a
Riveredge Nature Center Inc$30020%
Nick Teddy Foundation$3002n/a
Anti-Defamation League$30030%
Misericordia Home$30030%
Illinois Institute of Technology$28010%
Agma Foundation$26010%
Living Desert The$25010%
Moraine Park Foundation Inc$25010%
Shalimar Athletic Association Inc$2501n/a
Duke University Health System Inc$25010%
Nativity Jesuit Academy Inc$2501n/a
Saint Patricks Church$2502n/a
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$25010%
New Berlin Food Pantry Inc$25010%
La Causa Inc$2501n/a
Aurora Health Care Foundation Inc$25020%
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc$25010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$25010%
Childfund International USA$23110%
Erie Catholic School System Inc$2131n/a
Phoenix Society Inc$2101n/a
Flagship Niagara League$20520%
Wisconsin Humane Society$20220%
Special Olympics Arizona Inc$20020%
Chizuk Amuno Congregation$2002n/a
Georgetown University$20020%
Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc$2001n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc$20030%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$20020%
Rockland Negro Scholarship Fund$20020%
New Hope Pregnancy Center of Sheboygan Inc$20020%
University of Pittsburgh$20040%
Together We Rise$20010%
Uw-Whitewater Foundation Inc$20030%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc$20020%
Presque Isle Partnership Inc$20010%
Great Marriages for Sheboygan County Inc$20020%
American Lung Association$20010%
Andover Volunteer Fire Department$20020%
Alverno College$18010%
PTA Wisconsin Congress - Milwaukee German Immersion School$17820%
City Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie$17730%
Ronald McDonald House Charties of Northeastern Pensylvania Inc$17510%
Waterorg$15010%
New Blossoms New Life Foundation$15020%
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc$15010%
Benedictine University$15010%
Literacy Services of Wisconsin Inc$15010%
Curepsp Inc$15030%
Islamic Relief USA$12510%
The Uwm Foundation Inc$12010%
Hcs Family Services$10510%
Grady's Decision$10320%
Milwaukee Intertribal Circle Inc$1001n/a
Safe Haven$10020%
Public Broadcasting of Northwest Pennsylvania Inc$10020%
Nmdp Foundation$10010%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$10010%
Izaak Walton League of America Inc$1002n/a
Ben Franklin Elementary PTO$1001n/a
Children's Cancer Research Fund$10010%
Milwaukee Riverkeeper Inc$10020%
Cadasil Association$10020%
Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania$10020%
Cards for Hospitalized Kids Inc$10020%
Christian Appalachian Project Inc$10020%
American Brain Tumor Association$10030%
Pali Momi Foundation$10020%
Community Projects Committee Inc$10010%
Mattie N Dixon Community Cupboard Inc$10010%
Women's Empowerment$10010%
Lions Club International$1001n/a
Wisconsin Troopers' Benevolent Foundation Inc$10020%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$10010%
Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries$1001n/a
Hair We Share$10020%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$10010%
The Women's Center Inc$10010%
Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County$1001n/a
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma$10010%
Mighty Oaks Foundation$10010%
Klutch Baseball Inc$1001n/a
Patrick J Dipaolo Memorial Scholarship$10020%
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc$10010%
Feeding America$10010%
The Food Pantry Inc$10010%
Erie Zoological Society$10010%
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc$10010%
Cathedral Center Inc$10020%
Family Service Agency of Waukesha County Inc$10020%
Bay View Community Center of Milwaukee Inc$10010%
Omega House Inc$10010%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$10010%
First Stage Milwaukee$10010%
Florentine Opera Company Inc$10010%
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts Inc$10010%
The Tau Beta Pi Association Inc$9810%
World Vision International$752n/a
The River Food Pantry Inc$7510%
Direct Relief$7510%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$7510%
Paws Chicago$6510%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$5310%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$5310%
Anna Foundation Inc Assoc for Needy and Neglected Animals$5220%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$5220%
Seed Savers Exchange Inc$5010%
Penn State Health$5010%
Emmas Footprints$5010%
The Goodell Project Inc$501n/a
Emmaus Ministries$502n/a
Internet Archive$5010%
The Milwaukee Rowing Club$5010%
Friends of Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission Inc$5010%
National Wildlife Federation$5010%
Muttland Meadows Inc$501n/a
Linked by Pink$5010%
Covenant House$5010%
People's Resource Center$5010%
Friends of the Hank Aaron State Trail Inc$5010%
Fairfield Hose Company$501n/a
Marquette University High School$501n/a
Nearby Nature Milwaukee$5010%
Hope on Horseback$5010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc$5020%
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)$5010%
Repairers of the Breach Inc$5010%
American Diabetes Association$5010%
Milwaukee Public Library Foundation Inc$501n/a
Trout Unlimited$502n/a
Andover Volunteer Fire Department$5010%
Second Families$501n/a
Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc$5010%
Elmbrook Humane Society Inc$5010%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 112 recipients with no EIN on record ($983k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc: $482,013 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc: $400,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHunger Task Force Inc: $323,234 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSojourner Family Peace Center Inc: $94,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Community Center Inc: $90,835 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAll-In Milwaukee Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNext Door Foundation Inc: $46,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee School of Engineering: $45,137 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ecology Center Inc: $40,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTriangle Education Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPalm Beach Atlantic University Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers and Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee: $9,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCarthage College: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBryant & Stratton College Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOlivet Nazarene University: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAzusa Pacific University: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County: $6,908 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of la Verne: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Xavier University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridgewater College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCampbell University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc: $4,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Lands & Waters: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetReaders 2 Leaders: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Southern College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJust One More Ministry Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAvery Coonley School: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRobert a Toigo Foundation: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee Inc: $2,485 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Spaces Inc: $2,183 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKinship Mke Inc: $2,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRawhide Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSkylight Music Theatre Corp: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Performing Arts Fund Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKeuka College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenosha Achievement Center Inc: $1,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSan Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Arts Mke Inc: $1,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBridges to a New Day Nfp: $1,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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 Foundation IncWI72.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Erie Community Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc

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.

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About Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc)

How much does Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) give?
Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) reported 115 grants totaling $561,288 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 89 and 151 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (16%).
Who are Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($482k), Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc ($400k), Hunger Task Force Inc ($323k).
Does Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
Where is Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) based?
Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) is based in WI.

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 387 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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