Wisconsin · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Health & Medicine in Wisconsin

Imperigo has identified 551 funders that made 4,478 grants totaling $1.7B to 398 health & medicine organizations in Wisconsin, with a median grant of $21K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Health & Medicine Funding in Wisconsin

Total granted $1.7B
Funders 551
Grants 4,478
Organizations funded 398

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Fulcrum Foundation Inc
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $81.8M · through 2021 · 95.6% of their giving
$82.0M
2. Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center Inc
8 grants to 2 organizations · largest $16.2M · through 2023 · 100.0% of their giving
$65.1M
3. Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $10.0M · through 2024 · 78.9% of their giving
$35.8M
4. Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Trust
8 grants to 1 organization · largest $12.0M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$34.6M
5. Hospital Sisters of St Francis Foundation Inc
33 grants to 6 organizations · largest $11.4M · through 2024 · 49.8% of their giving
$27.8M
6. ThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc
44 grants to 10 organizations · largest $3.5M · through 2024 · 90.8% of their giving
$18.1M
7. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $11.8M · through 2024 · 7.2% of their giving
$40.3M
8. United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc
256 grants to 28 organizations · largest $1.3M · through 2024 · 9.6% of their giving
$25.6M
9. Prohealth Care Foundation Inc
20 grants to 4 organizations · largest $1.5M · through 2023 · 78.8% of their giving
$11.3M
10. Oakwood Foundation Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $5.2M · through 2024 · 59.1% of their giving
$10.3M
11. Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital Foundation Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $7.6M · through 2023 · 95.4% of their giving
$7.6M
12. Friends of Penfield Children's Center Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.2M · through 2024 · 71.3% of their giving
$5.8M
13. Curative Foundation Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $999K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$5.8M
14. Aspirus Riverview Foundation Inc
3 grants to 3 organizations · largest $4.2M · through 2025 · 78.9% of their giving
$5.2M
15. Mercyhealth Development Foundation Inc
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $3.6M · through 2024 · 48.0% of their giving
$4.2M
16. Agnesian Healthcare Foundation Inc
16 grants to 5 organizations · largest $1.2M · through 2024 · 92.3% of their giving
$3.7M
17. Meriter Foundation Inc
7 grants to 2 organizations · largest $1.4M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$3.5M
18. Agrace HospiceCare Holdings Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.0M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$3.0M
19. Foundation for Tops Club Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.5M · through 2020 · 100.0% of their giving
$2.9M
20. Madison Environmental Resourcing Inc
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $1.9M · through 2023 · 76.0% of their giving
$2.9M
21. Reedsburg Area Medical Center Foundation Ltd
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.4M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$2.6M
22. Aspirus Medford Foundation Inc
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $1.5M · through 2023 · 99.6% of their giving
$2.5M
23. Stoughton Hospital Foundation Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $996K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.8M
24. Versiti Indiana Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $1.6M · through 2020 · 97.1% of their giving
$1.6M
25. Howard Young Foundation Inc
9 grants to 4 organizations · largest $624K · through 2025 · 28.1% of their giving
$1.5M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to health & medicine work in Wisconsin, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 14 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering health & medicine work, with an address in Wisconsin. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable health & medicine funding in Wisconsin, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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