Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

628
foundations with a Milwaukee address
$863.7M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
197
say they accept unsolicited
$12,588
median grant

Grantlas lists 628 foundations that gave a Milwaukee, Wisconsin address on their tax filing — 609 private foundations and 19 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $863.7 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 197 of them (31%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Milwaukee foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 628 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 172 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bader Philanthropies Inc$57.1M$68.9M$45.3M–$68.9MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
US Bank Foundation$33.2M$66.4M$11.8M–$54.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc$100,000$56.5M$500–$6.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Husco Foundation$10,000$52.8M$250–$51.4MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc$26.7M$27M$26.3M–$27MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joseph and Vera Zilber Family$7,500$18.8M$250–$3.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
We Energies Foundation Inc$11.4M$11.4M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Rockwell Automation Charitable Corp$45,000$6.2M$10,000–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Alliss Educational Foundation-Equity$201,009$5.9M$6,500–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust$5.7M$5.7M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kelben Foundation Inc$1,500$4.9M$411–$4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
George H Sandy Foundation$40,000$4.5M$5,000–$205,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc$30,000$4.3M$57–$316,223FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Richard and Ethel Herzfeld$30,000$4.2M$5,000–$700,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Brookby Foundation$1,500$3.5M$100–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ida Koran Trust$1.2M$2.4M$850,411–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc$10,000$2.2M$1,000–$230,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc$6,000$2.1M$196–$15,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Anon Charitable Trust$10,000$2M$1,000–$125,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
A O Smith Foundation Inc$2M$1.9M$1.9M–$2.1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Gainey Foundation$50,000$1.9M$10,000–$170,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Wagmore Foundation Agency$20,000$1.9M$4,500–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
El& Bg Lightfoot Foundation$3,000$1.7M$1,250–$382,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Samuel D & Virginia B Saffro Charitabl$250,000$1.6M$102,000–$1.6MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust$7,500$1.6M$2,500–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.