Hammes Family Foundation Inc
Milwaukee, WI · EIN 85-2923633. Reported 84 grants totalling $1,658,371 to 45 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Hammes Family Foundation Inc checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
4 of the organizations Hammes Family Foundation Inc funded make grants themselves, and it reported 6 grants totalling $42,000 to them. That is 3% of the $1,229,072 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waukesha County Community Foundation | community foundation | Wisconsin | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| Bradley Impact Fund Inc | grantmaking organization | Wisconsin | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc | community foundation | Wisconsin | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & | federated giving programme | Wisconsin | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $6,590. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $667,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $667,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy | Milwaukee, WI | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lumen Christi Parish | Mequon, WI | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Barry Alvarez Fielduw Madison | Madison, WI | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Medical College of Wi | Milwaukee, WI | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Milwaukee World Festival Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | Milwaukee, WI | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Teach for America Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | $39,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $33,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Badger Institute Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin | Milwaukee, WI | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Thriveon Milwaukee Community Chair in Health Equity Research | Milwaukee, WI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Macc Fund | Milwaukee, WI | $26,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Milwaukee, WI | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Waukesha County Community Foundation | Waukesha, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Augustine Preparatory Academy Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $23,055 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee I Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Boca Grande | Boca Grande, FL | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee | Milwaukee, WI | $15,181 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bradley Impact Fund Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Teach for America Milwaukee Region | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Roberts Home and School Association | Shorewood, WI | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Betty Brinn Children's Museum | Milwaukee, WI | $13,103 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Mps Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wisconsin Historical Foundation | Madison, WI | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Badgers United | Middleton, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Milwaukee Committee | Milwaukee, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| James J Curtis Student Experience | Milwaukee, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Milwaukee Lutheran High School | Milwaukee, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Monica Home & School | Whitefish Bay, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Joseph Project a Milwaukee Corporation | Milwaukee, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University School of Milwaukee Endowment Fund Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc | Mequon, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Children at Encompass Ruth | Green Bay, WI | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Greater Milwaukee Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nativity Jesuit Academy | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Next Door Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Petawa Residence and Cultural Center Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $517 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | Richmond, VA | $515 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mequon Community Foundation Inc | Mequon, WI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Schlitz Audubon Nature Center | Milwaukee, WI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
21 of 45 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 52%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc
MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER - Medical College of Wi
IMAGINE MORE DINNER SPONSOR - Medical College of Wisconsin
10TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER SPONSORSHIP, WE CARE FUND - Macc Fund
2023 MACC RINGER SPONSORSHIP - Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc
2024 MACC RINGER SPONSORSHIP - Milwaukee Bucks Foundation Inc
2025 SIXTH MAN SOIREE HELD Q1 2-025
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 46 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $200,000 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 26 | $264,017 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 19 | $223,515 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 12 | $796,736 | $9,500 |
| 2025 | 11 | $174,103 | $8,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
94% of its giving went to organizations in Wisconsin.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Hammes Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1400 N Water St 500, Milwaukee, WI, 53202. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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