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Who funds homeless shelters in Wisconsin? Grant data from tax filings and federal listings

From 2025-2026 IRS filings: 48 grants totaling $725,156 went to homeless shelters-related work in Wisconsin. The largest funders, the typical grant size, and what is open at the federal level right now, all from public records.

The largest private funders of homeless shelters in Wisconsin, from their own tax filings

FunderGrantsTotal
RENEWAL UNLIMITED INC6$131,838
JOSEPH AND VERA ZILBER FAMILY1$100,000
ROSEMARY L & JOHN P MORTENSEN1$70,000
OTTO BREMER TRUST1$60,000
WHEDA FOUNDATION INC1$41,913
BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY1$39,000
HETZEL-LONG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC1$30,000
DE PERE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH1$25,000
HUGH J ANDERSEN FOUNDATION1$23,000
GREEN BAY PACKERS FOUNDATION4$22,000

Across all funders: 48 grants, $725,156 total, median grant $9,215.

Largest recipients in Wisconsin

RecipientGrantsTotal
BARABOO AREA HOMELESS SHELTER4$102,139
WALKER'S POINT YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER1$100,000
ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC6$87,403
ST JOHN'S MINISTRIES2$72,000
ST JOHNS HOMELESS SHELTER3$40,228
ST JOHN HOMELESS SHELTER2$40,000
NORTHWOODS HOMELESS SHELTERS INC3$38,033
NEW BEGINNINGS HOMELESS SHELTER OF DODGE COUNTY INC2$37,252
RIVER HAVEN HOMELESS SHELTER INC3$34,522
PILLARS HOMELESS SHELTER1$30,000

Open federal opportunities addressing homeless shelters (nonprofit-eligible)

Federal opportunities are listed nationally: a nonprofit in Wisconsin can apply to any of them, so this table is not filtered by state.

Matched against the full synopsis text of every posted opportunity, not the listing title alone; restricted to opportunities open to nonprofit applicants. Federal programs rarely use the phrase "homeless shelter"; this table also matches the agency vocabulary: homelessness, housing insecurity, unhoused, supportive housing.

NumberTitleAgencyAward rangeCloses
PAR-25-310Accelerating Solutions to Improve Access and Quality of Empirically-Supported PrNational Institutes of Healthunspecified to unspecified01/07/2027
PDR-2600-DC-0USPAuthority to Accept Unsolicited Proposals for Research Partnerships Notice of InDepartment of Housing and Urban Developmentunspecified06/09/2027
CPD-2600-DC-0035Youth Homelessness NOFO for FY2024 and FY2025Department of Housing and Urban Development$500,000 to $15.0 million08/10/2026
HHS-2026-ACF-ACYF-CY-0159FY2026 Runaway Homeless Youth Training, Technical Assistance, and Capacity BuildAdministration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB$1.8 million to $2.5 million08/14/2026
HHS-2026-ACF-ACYF-AP-0003Personal Responsibility Education Innovative Strategies (PREIS)Administration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB$750,000 to $900,00008/18/2026
HHS-2026-ACF-ACYF-CY-0160National Communication System for Runaway and Homeless Youth ProgramAdministration for Children & Families - ACYF/FYSB$1.0 million to $1.8 million08/19/2026
CPD-2600-DC-0025FY 2026 Continuum of Care Competition and Youth Homelessness Demonstration ProgrDepartment of Housing and Urban Development$2,500 to $25.0 million08/26/2026
VPL-01-23Announcement of Stand Down Grantsup to $10,00009/30/2026

grants.gov's own loose keyword search returns 28 listings mentioning "homeless shelters" anywhere (retrieved 2026-08-03); the table above is our stricter relevance cut.

What these numbers do not say

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