Funding search · EIN 856574540 · Madison, WI

The Mehring Family Foundation

Name: The Mehring Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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.

53
grants reported: $1.7M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $2,048
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

gift care foster religious cancer capital carbone center

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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.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Impact Christian School3 grants · $575,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation3 grants · $372,880
Bridge To Brighter3 grants · $320,000
Global Leadership Network2 grants · $219,500
The Varsity Collective1 grant · $56,400
St Marcus School2 grants · $53,080
Home 4 the Heart1 grant · $30,000
Marquette University High School3 grants · $24,500
Living Hope International1 grant · $17,060
Vince Lonbardi Cancer Foundation1 grant · $10,000

Giving over time

$606,100

2022

$450,077

2023

$680,496

2024

Grant history

All 53 reported grants, largest first.

$311,250
Impact Christian School · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$200,000
Global Leadership Network · S Barrington, IL · 2022
Religious leadership support
$195,000
Bridge To Brighter · Madison, WI · 2022
Foster care support
$183,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$170,000
Impact Christian School · Madison, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable gift
$136,550
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2023
Capital projects
$93,750
Impact Christian School · Madison, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift
$90,000
Bridge To Brighter · Madison, WI · 2023
Foster care support
$56,400
The Varsity Collective · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$53,330
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2022
Capital projects
$35,000
Bridge To Brighter · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$30,000
Home 4 the Heart · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift
$27,730
St Marcus School · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable grant
$25,350
St Marcus School · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$19,500
Global Leadership Network · S Barrington, IL · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$17,060
Living Hope International · West Bend, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$15,000
Marquette University High School · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$10,000
Vince Lonbardi Cancer Foundation · Germantown, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift
$8,000
Marquette University High School · Milwaukee, WI · 2022
Religious education
$7,000
Blackhawk Church · Middleton, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable gift
$6,570
Oregon Athletic Booster Club · Oregon, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift
$5,000
Meriter Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · Madison, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift
$3,000
Pathways High School · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$3,000
Greywolf Foundation · Cottage Grove, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,500
Doxa Church · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,500
Pathways High School · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,048
World Vision · Federal Way, WA · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,000
100 Men · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,000
365 Media Foundation · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,000
Cure Local · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,000
100 Men · Madison, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,000
Doxa Church · Madison, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable grant
$2,000
Blackhawk Church · Middleton, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift
$1,500
First Business Bank · Madison, WI · 2023
Support for fbb annual charity golf invitational
$1,500
Marquette University High School · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Religious education
$1,500
First Business Bank · Madison, WI · 2022
Support for fbb 11th annual charity golf invitational
$1,400
Garding Against Cancer Research Fund · Madison, WI · 2023
Support for the uw carbone cancer center
$1,272
Feed My Starving Children · Coon Rapids, MN · 2023
Eliminate child malnutrition
$1,000
Clean Lake Alliance · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$1,000
Garding Against Cancer Research Fund · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$1,000
Madison Tigers · Merrimac, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$1,000
Clean Lake Alliance · Madison, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable grant
$1,000
Friends of Cars Curing Kids · Middleton, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable grant
$1,000
Onehope 27 · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Support for children and families involved with foster care in milwaukee county, wisconsin
$700
Madison Rotary Foundation Community Grants · Madison, WI · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$525
Children'S World Impact · Lake Geneva, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable grant
$438
Feed My Starving Children · Coon Rapids, MN · 2024
Eliminate child malnutrition
$350
Garding Against Cancer Research Fund · Madison, WI · 2022
Support for the uw carbone cancer center
$250
University of Northwestern - St Paul · Saint Paul, MN · 2024
Unrestricted charitable grant
$250
Gilda'S Club Madison · Middleton, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift
$250
Taso Foundation · Cottage Grove, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift
$100
Lake Waukesha Conservation · Waukesha, WI · 2023
Unrestricted charitable gift
$100
Lake Waukesha Conservation · Waukesha, WI · 2022
Unrestricted charitable gift

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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.