· Private foundation
Gerald J and Rosalie E Kahn Family Foundation Inc C/O Godfrey & Kahn Sc
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k17 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE (WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY) | $52,330 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $39,830 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND (ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION) | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP | $5,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $2,850 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $2,500 |
| MILWAUKEE FILM | $1,995 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY | $1,750 |
| THEATRE ASPEN | $500 |
| THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The american civil liberties union of wisconsin foundation, inc. (the "foundation") protects and promotes the civil liberties and civil rights of all wisconsin residents by means of litigation, advocacy, public education, research, and…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The american civil liberties union of wisconsin, inc. (the union") protects and promotes the civil liberties and civil rights of all people in wisconsin in a non-partisan matter.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE FILM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CAMPUS AT WILLITS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gerald J and Rosalie E Kahn Family Foundation Inc C/O Godfrey & Kahn Sc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.