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Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
425
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$15MRecreation & Sports$214kArts & Culture$65kScience & Tech$57kCommunity Improvement$42kReligion$39kSocial Science$34kYouth Development$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 425 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k420 grants · $2.0M
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUN PRAIRIE EAST HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
WISCONSIN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMIN$12,500
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$10,000
GREENVILLE TECHNICAL COLLEGE$10,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
GLENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$9,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
DARLINGTON ELEMENTARYMIDDLE SCHOOL$9,000
RIPON COLLEGE$8,153
MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE$7,500
SOUTH MILWAUKEE HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
WESTFIELD AREA HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
REAGAN HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE: $10k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $10k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON: $10k → 6%LORAS COLLEGE: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON: $10k → 9%MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%ST NORBERT COLLEGE: $10k → 9%CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - OSHKOSH: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - STEVENS POINT: $10k → 9%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - STOUT: $10k → 10%GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE - KENOSHA: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY: $10k → 10%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%COE COLLEGE: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY: $10k → 10%TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - STEVENS POINT: $10k → 11%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON: $10k → 11%NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 11%FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - PLATTEVILLE: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - SEATTLE: $10k → 12%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%NORTH CENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 12%NORTH CENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 12%UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $10k → 13%WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE - LACROSSE: $10k → 14%LORI DANZ: $15k → 11%WISCONSIN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMIN: $13k → 10%WISCONSIN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMIN: $13k → 10%BRIAN COLLINS: $15k → 9%SUN PRAIRIE EAST HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 10%KABBY HONG: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
AZ
TN
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 277 repeat orgs$7.2M to everyone else

277 repeat relationships: 113 still active in FY2025, 164 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

277
982

Total granted

$11M
$6.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+15%

Still filing today

9%
1%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $835k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MU
    Marquette University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +24%
  • ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +8%
  • CU
    CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITIY OF WISCONSIN - MILWAUKEE
    one grant, 2020 · $23k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • NR
    NEW RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $18k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
2
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
3
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
4
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
5
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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6
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
9
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
10
Mount Saint Mary's University Inc

As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.

Education
11
Xavier University

Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…

Education
12
Luther College

Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Norbert College Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 1,333 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON: $1,566,324 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - STEVENS POINT: $332,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - LACROSSE: $331,000 · Other+181 more: $7,332,021 · Other+181 moreMarquette University: $250,497 · EducationMarquette U…ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC: $127,500 · EducationST NORBERT …CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC: $113,750 · EducationCARROLL UNI…MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $92,500 · EducationMILWAUKEE S…CARTHAGE COLLEGE: $83,900 · EducationCARTHAGE CO…CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $77,500 · EducationCONCORDIA U…VITERBO UNIVERSITY: $67,500 · EducationVITERBO UNI…EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $62,500 · EducationEDGEWOOD UN…MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $53,379 · EducationRIPON COLLEGE: $43,153 · Education+6 more: $149,000 · Education+6 more
Other$9,561,845Education$1,121,179

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarquette University: $250,497 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC: $127,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC: $113,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $92,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $83,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC: $77,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVITERBO UNIVERSITY: $67,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC: $62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $53,379 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRIPON COLLEGE: $43,153 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI ASSOC: $37,500 over 5y, 38% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKELAND UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHIGHLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBELLIN COLLEGE INC: $20,221 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBELOIT COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Marquette University ↗
  • Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Baird Foundation IncUnited Way of Greater…Green Bay Packers Fou…Harley-Davidson Found…Archdiocese of Milwau…Cedar Street Charitab…Culver's Foundation I…Youth Foundation IncEvan & Marion Helfaer…Bradley Impact Fund I…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI46.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Culver's Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1333 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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