Funding search · EIN 823736888 · Stanton, NE

The Michael & Lois Wilke Foundation

Name: The Michael & Lois Wilke Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

31
grants reported: $307,430
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

Full IRS filings ↗How this is built Report an error

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

4 grants matching “barrett” · $20,000

$5,000
Briggs & Barrett Project · Battle Creek, NE · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Briggs & Barrett Project · Battle Creek, NE · 2024
General operations
$5,000
Briggs & Barrett Project · Battle Creek, NE · 2023
General operations
$5,000
Briggs and Barrett Project · Battle Creek, NE · 2022
General operations

Grant history

All 31 reported grants, largest first.

$100,000
Teammates Mentoring Program · Columbus, NE · 2024
General operations
$25,000
Leigh Legacy Fund · Leigh, NE · 2023
General operations
$25,000
Stanton County Veterans Memorial Park · Stanton, NE · 2023
General operations
$20,200
Global Orphan Hope · Lincoln, NE · 2022
General operations
$15,000
American Legion McLeod Post No 47 · Schuyler, NE · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Norfolk Family Ymca · Norfolk, NE · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Our Savior Lutheran Church · Norfolk, NE · 2025
General operations
$10,000
Norfolk Family Ymca · Norfolk, NE · 2024
General operations
$10,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2024
General operations
$10,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2023
General operations
$10,000
Stanton Community Schools Foundation · Stanton, NE · 2023
General operations
$10,000
Norfolk Family Ymca · Norfolk, NE · 2022
General operations
$5,000
Briggs & Barrett Project · Battle Creek, NE · 2025
General operations
$5,000
St Jude Children'S Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2025
General operations
$5,000
Briggs & Barrett Project · Battle Creek, NE · 2024
General operations
$5,000
Briggs & Barrett Project · Battle Creek, NE · 2023
General operations
$5,000
Our Savior Lutheran Church · Norfolk, NE · 2023
General operations
$5,000
Briggs and Barrett Project · Battle Creek, NE · 2022
General operations
$3,780
Children'S Hopechest · Palmer Lake, CO · 2025
General operations
$3,750
Rcs Triumph · Lincoln, NE · 2022
General operations
$2,500
Food Bank for the Heartland · Omaha, NE · 2025
General operations
$2,500
Rcs Triumph · Lincoln, NE · 2025
General operations
$2,500
Stanton Vfw · Stanton, NE · 2022
General operations
$2,000
Rcs Triumph Foundation · Lincoln, NE · 2023
General operations
$2,000
Our Savior Lutheran · Norfolk, NE · 2022
General operations
$1,200
Norfolk Area United Way · Norfolk, NE · 2023
General operations
$500
Nauw (Norfolk Area United Way) · Norfolk, NE · 2025
General operations
$500
Special Olympics Nebraska · Omaha, NE · 2025
General operations
$500
Nauw (Norfolk Area United Way) · Norfolk, NE · 2024
General operations
$300
Stanton Veterans Memorial · Stanton, NE · 2025
General operations
$200
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the 360 · Stanton, NE · 2025
General operations

Who else funds this kind of work

Same state

The Sherwood Foundation2,686 grants · $978.4M
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation1,530 grants · $3.56B
The Nebraska Medical Center137 grants · $1.25B

Similar grant size

Enterprise Holdings Foundation30,880 grants · $360.4M
State Employees Credit Union Foundation7,131 grants · $63.0M
Seattle Foundation14,012 grants · $457.3M

Grants already paid are the record; PaperOrbit reads your paper and finds the funders whose record matches it — then explains why.

Search funders like this one

Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.